Good is the mora that makes all sure.
GEORGE HERBERTIt’s not good fishing before the net.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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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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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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