When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
GEORGE HERBERTThe way is an ill neighbour.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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