The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Prettiness dies first.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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