The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERTA Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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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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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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No Alchymy to saving.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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The eye will have his part.
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