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George Herbert

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Bibles Laid Open, Millions Of Surprises.

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Hee That Goes To Bed Thirsty Riseth Healthy.

God Sees Hearts As We See Faces.

No Barber Shaves So Close But Another Finds Worke.

Two Ill Meales Make The Third A Glutton.

All Griefes With Bread Are Lesse.

Health And Sicknesse Surely Are Mens Double Enemies. [health And Sickness Surely Are Men's Double Enemies.]

Play Not For Gain, But Sport. Who Plays For More Than He Can Lose With Pleasure, Stakes His Heart; Perhaps His Wife's Too, And Whom She Hath Bore.

Vnder Water, Famine; Under Snow, Bread.

Hee Is A Foole That Thinks Not That Another Thinks.

Could Have Recovered Greenness?

Ill Comes In By Ells, And Goes Out By Inches.

If Any Speak Ill Of Thee, Fly Home To Thy Own Conscience And Examine Thy Heart. If Thou Art Guilty, It Is A Just Correction; If Not Guilty, It Is A Fair Instruction.

Benefits Please Like Flowers While They Are Fresh.

Poverty Is No Sinne. [poverty Is No Sin.]

The Fault Is As Great As Hee That Is Faulty.

Two Sparrows On One Ear Of Corn Make An Ill Agreement.

Take Heed Of A Step-mother; The Very Name Of Her Sufficeth.

The Longest Day Hath An Eueninge.

There Needs A Long Time To Know The Worlds Pulse.

Man Is One World, And Hath / Another To Attend Him.

Though The Fox Run, The Chicken Hath Wings.

Happie Is Hee That Chastens Himselfe.

Hunger Makes Dinners, Pastime Suppers.

In The World Who Knowes Not To Swimme, Goes To The Bottome. [in The World, Who Knows Not To Swim Goes To The Bottom.]

If You Would Bee At Ease, All The World Is Not.

A Woman Conceales What Shee Knowes Not.

Before You Make A Friend, Eate A Bushell Of Salt With Him.

A City That Parlies Is Half Gotten. [a City That Parleys Is Half Gotten.]

If The Staffe Be Crooked, The Shadow Cannot Be Straight.

While The Discreet Advise, The Foole Doth His Busines. [while The Discreet Advise, The Fool Doth His Busines.]

The House Shows The Owner.

He Lives Unsafely, That Lookes Too Neere On Things.

The Sight Of A Man Hath The Force Of A Lyon.

When One Is On Horsebacke Hee Knowes All Things.

It's An Ill Aire Where Wee Gaine Nothing.

The Healthfull Man Can Give Counsell To The Sick.

Thinke Of Ease, But Worke On.

Dally Not With Mony Or Women. [dally Not With Money Or Women.]

Were It Not For The Bone In The Legge, All The World Would Turne Carpenters (to Make Them Crutches).

It's A Wicked Thing To Make A Dearth Ones Garner.

At The Games End We Shall See Who Gaines.

A House And A Woman Sute Excellently.

A Tyrant Is Most Tyrant To Himselfe.

It Is Very Hard To Shave An Egge. [it Is Very Hard To Shave An Egg.]

God Strikes With His Finger, And Not With All His Arm.

The Child Saies Nothing, But What It Heard By The Fire.

The Comforters Head Never Akes.

He That Hath One Foot In The Straw, Hath Another In The Spittle.

Be Useful Where Thou Livest.

Wealth Is Like Rheume, It Falles On The Weakest Parts.

Willowes Are Weak, Yet They Bind Other Wood.

Give A Clown Your Finger, And He Will Take Your Hand.

The Fineness Which A Hymn Or Psalm Affords If When The Soul Unto The Lines Accords.

We Must Recoile A Little, To The End We May Leap The Better.

I Had Rather Ride On An Ass That Carries Me Than A Horse That Throws Me.

He Cannot Be Vertuous That Is Not Rigorous.

He That Hath Hornes In His Bosom, Let Him Not Put Them On His Head.

Divine Ashes Are Better Then Earthly Meale.

Serve A Noble Disposition, Though Poore, The Time Comes That Hee Will Repay Thee.

Nothing Is To Be Presumed On, Or Despaired Of.

The Chicken Is The Country's, But The City Eats It.

With Customes Wee Live Well, But Lawes Undoe Us.

He That Thinks Amiss, Concludes Worse.

Wine Is A Turne-coate (first A Friend, Then An Enemy). [wine Is A Turncoat, First A Friend, Then An Enemy.]

Praise The Sea, But Keepe On Land.

To A Gratefull Man Give Mony When He Askes.

Buy At A Faire, But Sell At Home. [buy At A Fair, But Sell At Home.]

Little Losses Amaze, Great Tame.

At Length The Fox Turnes Monk.

Every Day Brings His Bread With It.

He That Sings On Friday, Will Weepe On Sunday.

Nothing Dries Sooner Then A Teare.

Nothing Wears Clothes, But Man; Nothing Doth Need But He To Wear Them.

Laugh Not Too Much; The Witty Man Laughs Least: For Wit Is News Only To Ignorance. Lesse At Thine Own Things Laugh; Lest In The Jest Thy Person Share, And The Conceit Advance.

He That Chastens One, Chastens 20.

Souldiers In Peace Are Like Chimneys In Summer.

Take Heed Of A Young Wench, A Prophetesse, And A Lattin Bred Woman.

Of Him That Speakes Ill, Consider The Life More Then The Word. [of Him That Speaks Ill, Consider The Life More Than The Word.]

Skill And Confidence Are An Unconquered Army.

A Crooked Log Makes A Strait Fire.

All Things Have Their Place, Knew Wee How To Place Them.

In Cloths Cheap Handsomeness, Doth Bear The Bell.

Take All That Is Given Whether Wealth, Love Or Language, Nothing Comes By Mistake And With Good Digestion All Can Be Turned To Health.

Threatned Men Eat Bread, Says The Spaniard.

The Tooth-ach Is More Ease Then To Deale With Ill People.

Water, Fire, And Souldiers, Quickly Make Roome. [water, Fire, And Soldiers Quickly Make Room.]

Noble Houskeepers Neede No Dores.

It's A Bold Mouse That Nestles In The Catts Eare.

He That Speakes Sowes, And He That Holds His Peace, Gathers.

Cloath Thee In War, Arme Thee In Peace.

They That Hold The Greatest Farmes, Pay The Least Rent (applyed To Rich Men That Are Unthankful To God).

He That Serves, Must Serve.

The Evening Praises The Day, And The Morning A Frost.

Wee Know Not Who Lives Or Dies.

The Jewes Spend At Easter, The Moors At Marriages, The Christians In Sutes.

To A Child All Weather Is Cold.

To Deceive Ones Selfe Is Very Easie.

Parsons Are Soules Waggoners.

To Bee Beloved Is Above All Bargaines.

We Batchelors Laugh And Shew Our Teeth, But You Married Men Laugh Till Your Hearts Ake.

Where The Drink Goes In, There The Wit Goes Out.

Feare, The Bedle Of The Law.

Hee That Hath Patience Hath Fatt Thrushes For A Farthing.

He That Is Warme, Thinkes All So.

A Journying Woman Speakes Much Of All, And All Of Her.

For All May Have, If They Dare To Try, A Glorious Life, Or Grave.

The Jews Spend At Easter.

He That Hath Lands Hath Quarrells.

The Filth Under The White Snow, The Sunne Discovers.

The Best Smell Is Bread; The Best Saver, Salt; The Best Love, That Of Children.

Water Trotted Is As Good As Oates.

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.

Gaming, Women, And Wine, While They Laugh They Make Men Pine.

The Effect Speakes, The Tongue Needes Not. [the Effect Speaks, The Tongue Needs Not.]

Hee Lookes Not Well To Himselfe That Lookes Not Ever.

The Germans Wit Is In His Fingers.

Wisedome Hath One Foot On Land, And Another On Sea.

He That Marries Late, Marries Ill.

Wouldst Thou Both Eat Thy Cake And Have It?

Anothers Bread Costs Deare.

Look Not For Musk In A Dog's Kennel.

That Is Not Good Language Which All Understand Not.

He That Will Be Surety, Shall Pay.

If The Husband Be Not At Home, There Is Nobodie.

You May Bring A Horse To The River, But He Will Drinke When And What He Pleaseth.

Where There Is Peace, God Is.

Teach Me, My God And King In All Things Thee To See And What I Do In Anything To Do It As For Thee

Great Deservers Grow Intolerable Presumers.

Of The Smells, Bread; Of The Tastes, Salt.

Hee That Blowes In The Dust Fills His Eyes With It.

Every One Stretcheth His Legges According To His Coverlet. [every One Stretches His Legs According To His Coverlet.]

Craft Against Craft Makes No Living.

There Is Great Force Hidden In A Sweet Command.

Frenzy, Heresie, And Jealovsie, Seldome Cured.

A Little Labour, Much Health.

In The Kingdome Of Blind Men The One Ey'd Is King. [in The Kingdom Of Blind Men The One Eyed Is King.]

He That Is Not In The Warres Is Not Out Of Danger.

Hee That Keepes His Owne Makes Warre.

To A Greedy Eating Horse A Short Halter.

The Slothful Is The Servant Of The Counters.

When God Will Punish, Hee Will First Take Away The Understanding.

True Beauty Dwells On High: Ours Is A Flame But Borrowed Thence To Light Us Thither. Beauty And Beauteous Words Should Go Together.

He Is A Great Necromancer, For He Asks Counsel Counsell Of The Dead (i.e. Books).

Give Me Simplicity, That I May Live, So Live And Like, That I May Know Thy Ways, Know Them And Practise Them: Then Shall I Give For This Poor Wreath, Give Thee A Crown Of Praise.

Praise None Too Much, For All Are Fickle.

Let Thy Mind Still Be Bent, Still Plotting, Where, And When, And How Thy Business May Be Done. Slackness Breeds Worms; But The Sure Traveller, Though He Alights Sometimes Still Goeth On.

The Thorne Comes Forth With The Point Forwards.

He That Contemplates Hath A Day Without Night.

The Wise Hand Doth Not All That The Foolish Mouth Speakes. [the Wise Hand Doth Not All That The Foolish Mouth Speaks.]

A Good Heart Cannot Lye

A Good Mother Is Worth Hundreds Of Schoolmasters.

First Day Of School

Who Hath Bitter In His Mouth, Spits Not All Sweet.

An Oath That Is Not To Bee Made Is Not To Be Kept.

If The Wise Erred Not, It Would Goe Hard With Fooles. [if The Wise Erred Not, It Would Go Hard With Fools.]

The Fault Of The Horse Is Put On The Saddle.

Avoid,profaneness; Come Not Here: Nothing But Holy, Pure, And Clear, Or That Which Groaneth To Be So, May At His Peril Further Go.

But, Indeed, The Science Of Logic And The Whole Framework Of Philosophical Thought Men Have Kept Since The Days Of Plato And Aristotle, Has No More Essential Permanence As A Final Expression Of The Human Mind, Than The Scottish Longer Catechism.

The Tree That Growes Slowly, Keepes It Selfe For Another.

Critics Are Like Brushers Of Noblemen's Clothes.

In Every Country Dogges Bite.

The Back-doore Robs The House.

If A Donkey Bray At You, Don't Bray At Him.

From A Chollerick Man Withdraw A Little; From Him That Saies Nothing, For Ever. [from A Choleric Man Withdraw A Little; From Him That Says Nothing, For Ever.]

Emptie Vessels Sound Most.

An Ill Deed Cannot Bring Honor.

Gentility Is Nothing But Ancient Riches.

Reckon Right, And February Hath One And Thirty Daies.

An Idle Youth, A Needy Age.

A Sleepy Master Makes His Servant A Lowt.

Either Wealth Is Much Increased, Or Moderation Is Much Decayed.

After So Many Deaths I Live And Write.

Who Paies The Physitian, Does The Cure.

More Have Repented Speech Then Silence. [more Have Repented Speech Than Silence.]

Without Businesse Debauchery.

Cover Your Selfe With Your Shield, And Care Not For Cryes.

Storms Make Oaks Take Deeper Root.

Bee Not Idle And You Shall Not Bee Longing.

Fooles Bite One Another, But Wise-men Agree Together.

Gold Thou Mayst Safely Touch; But If It Stick Unto Thy Hands, It Woundeth To The Quick.

The Royall Crowne Cures Not The Head-ach. [the Royal Crown Cures Not The Headache.]

He That Seekes Trouble Never Misses. [he That Seeks Trouble Never Misses.]

Chuse A Horse Made, And A Wife To Make.

Many Kiss The Hand They Wish Cut Off.

Prayers And Provender Hinder No Journey. [prayers And Provender Hinder No Man's Journey.]

He That Lies With The Dogs, Riseth With Fleas.

Who Goes To Bed, And Doth Not Pray, Maketh Two Nights To Every Day!

A Married Man Turns His Staffe Into A Stake.

Power Seldome Grows Old At Court.

The Great Would Have None Great And The Little All Little.

The Wine In The Bottle Does Not Quench Thirst.

To Buy Deare Is Not Bounty.

Sorrow Was All My Soul; I Scarce Believed, Till Grief Did Tell Me Roundly, That I Lived.

If Gold Knew What Gold Is, Gold Would Get Gold I Wis.

In A Great River Great Fish Are Found, But Take Heede, Lest You Bee Drowned.

Better A Snotty Child, Then His Nose Wip'd Off.

If A Good Man Thrive, All Thrive With Him.

Weening Is Not Measure.

To Take The Nuts From The Fire With The Dogges Foot. [to Take The Nuts From The Fire With The Dog's Foot.]

Count Not Fowre Except You Have Them In A Wallett.

In The Mouth Of A Bad Dog Fals Often A Good Bone.

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