There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERTWee know not who lives or dies.
More George Herbert Quotes
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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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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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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