Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
GEORGE HERBERTWith customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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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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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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