Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe way is an ill neighbour.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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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.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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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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