When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
GEORGE HERBERTA discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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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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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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