The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
GEORGE HERBERTWith customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Music helps not the toothache.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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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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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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