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.]
GEORGE HERBERTIt’s not good fishing before the net.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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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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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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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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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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