The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERTThe 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.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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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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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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