To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
GEORGE HERBERTWe do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Prettiness dies first.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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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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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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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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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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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 hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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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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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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