A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
GEORGE HERBERTAn upbraided morsell never choaked any.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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