The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERTA child correct behind and not before.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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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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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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