The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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