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George Herbert

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Bibles Laid Open, Millions Of Surprises.

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In Sports And Journeys Men Are Knowne. [in Sports And Journeys Men Are Known.]

Cities Seldome Change Religion Only.

Follow Not Truth Too Near The Heels, Lest It Dash Out Thy Teeth.

A Gift Much Expected Is Paid, Not Given.

Man Is All Symmetry Full Of Proportions, One Limb To Another, And All To All The World Besides; Each Part May Call The Farthest, Brother; For Head With Foot Hath Private Amity And Both With Moons And Tides.

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.

Losse Embraceth Shame.

Least At Thine Own Things Laugh.

They That Know One Another Salute A Farre Off.

Great Strokes Make Not Sweete Musick.

Praise None Too Much, For All Are Fickle.

One Graine Fills Not A Sacke, But Helpes His Fellowes.

Let None Say, I Will Not Drinke Water.

Feare Keepes The Garden Better Then The Gardiner.

Keep Good Company, And You Shall Be Of The Number.

Hee That Goes To Bed Thirsty Riseth Healthy.

A Snow Yeare, A Rich Yeare.

Man Proposeth, God Disposeth.

Benefits Please Like Flowers While They Are Fresh.

God Heales, And The Physitian Hath The Thankes.

Though You Rise Early, Yet The Day Comes At His Time, And Not Till Then.

I Escaped The Thunder, And Fell Into The Lightning.

A Full Belly Neither Fights Nor Flies Well.

Who Says That Fictions Only And False Hair Become A Verse? Is There In Truth No Beauty? Is All Good Structure In A Winding Stair?

Half The World Knows Not How The Other Half Lies.

Nothing Dries Sooner Then A Teare.

He That Believes All Misseth; He That Believes Nothing, Hits Not.

Love Your Neighbor, Yet Pull Not Down Your Hedge.

Sinnes Are Not Knowne Till They Bee Acted.

Take Heede Of An Oxe Before, Of An Horse Behind, Of A Monke On All Sides.

Cruelty Is More Cruell, If We Defer The Pain.

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

A Lean Compromise Is Better Than A Fat Lawsuit.

Living Well Is The Best Revenge.

Who Will Sell The Cow, Must Say The Word.

The Beast That Goes Alwaies Never Wants Blowes.

States Have Their Conversions And Periods As Well As Naturall Bodies.

It's A Dangerous Fire Begins In The Bed-straw.

A Great Ship Asks Deep Water.

To Live Peaceably With All Breedes Good Blood.

Spectacles Are Deaths Harquebuze. [spectacles Are Death's Arquebuse.]

Whatsoever Was The Father Of A Disease, An Ill Diet Was The Mother.

Good Is God, But Better Carries It.

Health Without Money Is Halfe An Ague.

No Love Is Foule, Nor Prison Fair.

It's Better To Be Head Of A Lyzard, Then The Tayle Of A Lyon.

Knowledge Is No Burden.

The Lame Goes As Farre As Your Staggerer. [the Lame Goes As Far As Your Staggerer.]

Hee That Strikes With His Tongue, Must Ward With His Head.

Harken To Reason Or Shee Will Bee Heard.

Every Bees Hony Is Sweet.

He That Plaies His Mony Ought Not To Value It.

Pull Downe Your Hatt On The Winds Side.

By All Means Use Sometimes To Be Alone. Salute Thyself: See What Thy Soul Doth Wear.

Old Men Go To Death, Death Comes To Young Men.

A Wise Man Cares Not For What He Cannot Have.

Beauty Draws More Than Oxen.

You Cannot Make A Wind-mill Goe With A Paire Of Bellowes.

God's Mill Grinds Slow, But Sure.

A Good Mother Is Worth Hundreds Of Schoolmasters.

First Day Of School

They Talke Of Christmas So Long, That It Comes.

Little Journeys And Good Cost Bring Safe Home.

He That Endures Is Not Overcome.

Bee Not Idle And You Shall Not Bee Longing.

Pleasing Ware Is Half Sold.

A Poore Beauty Finds More Lovers Then Husbands.

Who Sweeps A Room, As For Thy Laws, Makes That And The Action Fine.

A Bad Workman Quarrels With His Tools.

Take The Gentle Path.

Time Is The Rider That Breaks Youth.

Life Is Half Spent Before We Know What It Is.

Ty It Well, And Let It Goe.

Lend Only What You Can Afford To Lose.

Make Hast To An Ill Way That You May Get Out Of It.

Faire Language Grates Not The Tongue.

The Higher The Ape Goes, The More He Shewes His Taile. [the Higher The Ape Goes, The More He Shows His Tail.]

When It Thunders, The Theefe Becomes Honest. [when It Thunders, The Thief Becomes Honest.]

Could Have Recovered Greenness?

The Dark Grave, Which Knows All Secrets, Can Alone Reclaim The Fatal Doubt Once Cast On A Woman's Name.

He That Steals An Egg Will Steal An Ox.

The Apothecaries Morter Spoiles The Luters Musick.

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

The Wolf Must Die In His Own Skin.

Wee Leave More To Do When Wee Dye, Then Wee Have Done.

Infants Manners Are Moulded More By The Example Of Parents, Then By Stars At Their Nativities.

Parsons Are Soules Waggoners.

Keep Not Ill Men Company, Lest You Increase The Number.

He That Is Surprized With The First Frost Feeles It All The Winter After.

Who Praiseth Saint Peter, Doth Not Blame Saint Paul.

Hee That Hath A Fox For His Mate, Hath Neede Of A Net At His Girdle.

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

Some Had Rather Lose Their Friend Then Their Jest.

When War Begins, Then Hell Openeth.

A Garden Must Be Looked Unto And Dressed As The Body.

All Griefes With Bread Are Lesse.

Heresie May Be Easier Kept Out, Then Shooke Off.

That Which Two Will, Takes Effect.

Hee That Lies Long A Bed, His Estate Feeles It.

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

Advise None To Marry Or Go To War.

Whether You Boyle Snow Or Pound It, You Can Have But Water Of It.

A Good Digestion Turneth All To Health.

Hee Pays Too Deare For Honey That Licks It From Thornes.

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

Go Not For Every Grief To The Physician, Nor For Every Quarrell To The Lawyer, Nor For Every Thirst To The Pot.

Feare, The Bedle Of The Law.

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

The Most Effective Mirror Is Definitely An Previous Good Friend.

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.]

Knowledge Makes One Laugh, But Wealth Makes One Dance.

We Live In An Age That Hath More Need Of Good Example Than Precepts.

The Singing Man Keepes His Shop In His Throate.

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

Gold Opens All Locks, No Lock Will Hold Against The Power Of Gold.

When All Men Have What Belongs To Them, It Cannot Bee Much. [when All Men Have What Belongs To Them, It Cannot Be Much.]

Who Would Doe Ill Ne're Wants Occasion.

A Scepter Is One Thing, And A Ladle Another.

A Shippe And A Woman Are Ever Repairing.

To Seek In A Sheep Five Feet When There Is But Four.

The Hole Calls The Thiefe. [the Hole Calls The Thief.]

Discreet Women Have Neither Eyes Nor Eares. [discreet Women Have Neither Eyes Nor Ears.]

Rise, Heart; Thy Lord Is Risen. Sing His Praise Without Delays, Who Takes Thee By The Hand, That Thou Likewise With Him Mayst Rise: That, As His Death Calcined Thee To Dust, His Life May Make Thee Gold, And, Much More, Just.

God Comes To See Without A Bell.

Hee That Gets Out Of Debt, Growes Rich.

None Is Borne Master.

Hee That Bewailes Himselfe Hath The Cure In His Hands.

We Cannot Come To Honour Under Coverlet.

Money Wants No Followers.

The Wine In The Bottle Does Not Quench Thirst.

Speake Fitly, Or Be Silent Wisely.

The Honey Is Sweet, But The Bee Stings.

Thou Hast Death In Thy House, And Dost Bewaile Anothers.

The Least Foolish Is Wise.

A Trade Is Better Then Service.

Silkes And Satins Put Out The Fire In The Chimney.

A Hundredload Of Worry Will Not Pay An Ounce Of Debt.

A Man Well Mounted Is Ever Cholerick.

Wine Makes All Sorts Of Creatures At Table.

Fine Words Dresse Ill Deedes.

Health And Mony Goe Farre. [health And Money Go Far.]

Music Helps Not The Toothache.

He That Hath Little Is The Lesse Durtie.

An Idle Head Is A Boxe For The Winde.

On Painting And Fighting Looke Aloofe. [on Painting And Fighting Look Aloof.]

One Father Is Enough To Govern One Hundred Sons, But Not A Hundred Sons One Father.

Who Doth His Owne Businesse, Foules Not His Hands.

Vertue Now Is In Herbs And Stones And Words Onely.

That Which Will Not Be Spun, Let It Not Come Betweene The Spindle And The Distaffe.

A Caske And An Ill Custome Must Be Broken.

A Pleasure Long Expected Is Deare Enough Sold.

Praise The Sea, But Keepe On Land.

Resort To Sermons, But To Prayers Most: Praying's The End Of Preaching.

When A Lackey Comes To Hells Doore, The Devills Locke The Gates.

When God At First Made Man, Having A Glass Of Blessings Standing By, 'let Us,'said He,'pour On Him All We Can: Let The World's Riches, Which Disperse' D Lie, Contract Into A Span'.

A Penny Spar'd Is Twice Got.

Money Refused Loose Its Brightness.

There Needs A Long Time To Know The Worlds Pulse.

To A Fair Day Open The Window, But Make You Ready As To A Foule.

Thornes Whiten Yet Doe Nothing.

He That Lives Not Well One Yeare, Sorrowes Seven After. [he That Lives Not Well One Year Sorrows Seven Years After.]

In A Retreat The Lame Are Formost. [in A Retreat The Lame Are Foremost.]

The Ignorant Hath An Eagles Wings, And An Owles Eyes. [the Ignorant Hath An Eagle's Wings And An Owl's Eyes.]

To Him That Will, Waies Are Not Wanting.

Take Heed Of Credit Decaid, And People That Have Nothing.

Some Men Plant An Opinion They Seem To Erradicate.

Though A Lie Be Well Drest, It Is Ever Overcome. [though A Lie Be Well Dressed, It Is Ever Overcome.]

I Had Rather Aske Of My Sire Browne Bread, Then Borrow Of My Neighbour White.

Critics Are Like Brushers Of Noblemen's Clothes.

Hope Is The Poor Man's Bread.

How Wide Is All This Long Pretense! There Is In Love A Sweetness Ready Penned, Copy Out Only That, And Save Expense.

Love Makes A Good Eye Squint.

A Sad, Wise Valor Is The Brave Complexion.

Gamsters And Race-horses Never Last Long.

Every Path Hath A Puddle.

Greene Wood Makes A Hott Fire.

Who Gives To All, Denies All.

Tis Hard To Be Wretched, But Worse To Be Knowne So.

Great Paines Quickly Find Ease.

A Civil Guest Will No More Talk All, Than Eat All The Feast.

Lord! Who Hath Praise Enough?

All Our Pompe The Earth Covers.

Spies Are The Ears And Eyes Of Princes.

Your Pot Broken Seemes Better Then My Whole One.

Hee Stands Not Surely, That Never Slips.

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

The Wrongs Of A Husband Or Master Are Not Reproached.

You May Be On Land, Yet Not In A Garden.

When A Knave Is In A Plumtree He Hath Neither Friend Nor Kin.

Where There Is No Honour, There Is No Griefe.

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

True Beauty Lives On High. Ours Is But A Flame Borrowed Thence.

In Solitude, Be A Multitude To Thyself. Tibullus By All Means Use Sometimes To Be Alone.

The Mill Gets By Going.

Who Paies The Physitian, Does The Cure.

In War, Hunting, And Love, Men For One Pleasure A Thousand Griefes Prove.

Marry Your Sonne When You Will; Your Daughter When You Can. [marry Your Son When You Will, Your Daughter When You Can.]

To Bee Beloved Is Above All Bargaines.

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.

Bee Not A Baker, If Your Head Be Of Butter.

Truth And Oyle Are Ever Above. [truth And Oil Are Ever Above.]

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