They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
GEORGE HERBERTLove without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
More George Herbert Quotes
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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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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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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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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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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