He that staies does the businesse.
GEORGE HERBERTThe way is an ill neighbour.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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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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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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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.]
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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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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