In a long journey straw waighs.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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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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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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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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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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