Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
GEORGE HERBERTWe do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
More George Herbert Quotes
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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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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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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