In a long journey straw waighs.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
More George Herbert Quotes
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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