To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERTReligion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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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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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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A little labour, much health.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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