Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERTEvery one fastens where there is gaine.
More George Herbert Quotes
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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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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The eye will have his part.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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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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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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