Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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