The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERTA discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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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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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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