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Money, Thou Bane Of Bliss, And Source Of Woe, Whence Cam'st Thou, That Thou Art So Fresh And Fine? I Know Thy Parentage Is Base And Low: Man Found Thee Poor And Dirty In A Mine.

-George Herbert

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Money, Thou Bane Of

George Herbert

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Money, Thou Bane Of Bliss, And Source Of Woe, Whence Cam'st Thou, That Thou Art So Fresh And Fine? I Know Thy Parentage Is Base And Low: Man Found Thee Poor And Dirty In A Mine.

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Help Thyself, And God Will Help Thee.

He That Makes A Good War Makes A Good Peace.

To A Great Night, A Great Lanthorne.

When You Enter Into A House, Leave The Anger Ever At The Doore.

A Wolfe Will Never Make War Against Another Wolfe.

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

Religion, Credit, And The Eye Are Not To Be Touched.

Whether Goest, Griefe? Where I Am Wont.

Presse A Stick, And It Seemes A Youth.

He That Sowes Trusts In God.

The Shortest Answer Is Doing.

Forbeare Not Sowing Because Of Birds.

Presents Of Love Fear Not To Be Ill Taken Of Strangers.

God Provides For Him That Trusteth.

Fine Words Dresse Ill Deedes.

If The Mother Had Not Beene In The Oven, Shee Had Never Sought Her Daughter There.

If All Fooles Wore White Caps, Wee Should Seeme A Flock Of Geese.

Death Keeps No Calendar.

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

Only The Wearer Knows Where The Shoe Pinches.

Hee Lookes Not Well To Himselfe That Lookes Not Ever.

Throw Away Thy Rod, Throw Away Thy Wrath; O My God, Take The Gentle Path.

Everyone Is A Master And Servant.

Masters And Servants

Princes Are Venison In Heaven.

The Smith And His Penny Both Are Black.

Wine That Cost Nothing Is Digested Before It Be Drunke.

To A Boiling Pot Flies Come Not.

Hee That Hath Right, Feares; He That Hath Wrong, Hopes.

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

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

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

Vertue Now Is In Herbs And Stones And Words Onely.

Feares Are Divided In The Midst.

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

Neither Eyes On Letters, Nor Hands In Coffers.

Hee Begins To Die, That Quits His Desires.

He That Gains Well And Spends Well Needs No Count Book.

The Eye Will Have His Part.

Humble Hearts Have Humble Desires.

Warre And Physicke Are Governed By The Eye.

There Is More Talke Then Trouble.

He--the Country Parson--is Not Witty Or Learned Or Eloquent, But Holy.

If We Can Possibly Avoid Wrecking This Little Planet Of Ours, We Will, But-there Must Be Risks! There Must Be. In Experimental Work There Always Are!

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

In A Good House All Is Quickly Ready.

Who Letts His Wife Goe To Every Feast, And His Horse Drinke At Every Water, Shall Neither Have Good Wife Nor Good Horse.

In An Hundred Elles Of Contention, There Is Not An Inch Of Love.

He Hath Great Neede Of A Foole, That Plaies The Foole Himselfe.

If All Fooles Had Babies, Wee Should Want Fuell.

That From Small Fires Comes Oft No Small Mishap.

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

Wee Know Not Who Lives Or Dies.

Amiens Was Taken By The Fox, And Retaken By The Lion.

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

Hee Stands Not Surely, That Never Slips.

Every Man's Censure Is First Moulded In His Own Nature.

Threatned Men Eat Bread, Says The Spaniard.

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

The Blind Eate Many A Flie. [the Blind Eat Many A Fly.]

A Pleasure Long Expected Is Deare Enough Sold.

Giving Is Dead, Restoring Very Sicke.

To Whirle The Eyes Too Much Shewes A Kites Braine.

The Divell Never Assailes A Man, Except He Find Him Either Void Of Knowledge, Or Of The Fear Of God.

An Ill Agreement Is Better Then A Good Judgement. [an Ill Agreement Is Better Than A Good Judgment.]

Dry Feet, Warme Head, Bring Safe To Bed.

He That Goeth Farre Hath Many Encounters.

Hee That Hath A Wife And Children Wants Not Businesse.

When War Begins, Then Hell Openeth.

One Father Is More Than A Hundred Schoolmasters.

Advise None To Marry Or Go To War.

He Can Give Little To His Servant, That Lickes His Knife. [he Can Give Little To His Servant That Licks His Knife.]

There Were No Ill Language, If It Were Not Ill Taken.

He That Will Not Have Peace, God Gives Him Warre. [he That Will Not Have Peace, God Gives Him War.]

The Good Mother Sayes Not, Will You? But Gives.

Good Is The Mora That Makes All Sure.

Pull Downe Your Hatt On The Winds Side.

Wealth Is The Conjurer's Devil, Whom, When He Thinks He Hath, The Devil Hath Him.

To A Crafty Man, A Crafty And An Halfe.

It Costs More To Doe Ill Then To Doe Well. [it Costs More To Do Ill Than To Do Well.]

The Philosophy Of Princes Is To Dive Into The Secrets Of Men, Leaving The Secrets Of Nature To Those That Have Spare Time.

A Great Dowry Is A Bed Full Of Brables. [a Great Dowry Is A Bed Full Of Brambles.]

The Charges Of Building And Making Of Gardens Are Unknowne.

Words And Feathers The Wind Carries Away.

No Barber Shaves So Close But Another Finds Worke.

Of A New Prince, New Bondage.

Fooles Give To Please All But Their Owne.

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

None Knows The Weight Of Another's Burden.

We Do It Soon Enough, If That We Do Be Well.

The Least Foolish Is Wise.

Vertue Flies From The Heart Of A Mercenary Man.

He That Hath Children, All His Morsels Are Not His Owne.

Disgraces Are Like Cherries, One Drawes Another. [disgraces Are Like Cherries, One Draws Another.]

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

He That Will Learn To Pray, Let Him Go To Sea.

Hee That Hath Patience Hath Fatt Thrushes For A Farthing.

A Flatterers Throat Is An Open Sepulcher.

Better Spare To Have Of Thine Own, Then Aske Of Other Men. [better Spare To Have Of Thine Own Than Ask Of Other Men.]

What Your Glasse Telles You, Will Not Be Told By Councell.

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.

Willowes Are Weak, Yet They Bind Other Wood.

Storms Make Oaks Take Deeper Root.

The Love Of Money And The Love Of Learning Rarely Meet.

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The Rich Knowes Not Who Is His Friend. [the Rich Knows Not Who Is His Friend.]

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

Speake Fitly, Or Be Silent Wisely.

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

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

Foolish Tongues Talke By The Dozen.

A Master Of Straw Eates A Servant Of Steele.

Good And Quickly Seldom Meet.

He Is A Foole That Makes A Wedge Of His Fist.

Step By Step The Ladder Is Ascended.

There Is Great Force Hidden In A Sweet Command.

Hee Wrongs Not An Old Man That Steales His Supper From Him.

Promising Is The Eve Of Giving.

It's More Paine To Doe Nothing Then Something.

The Filth Under The White Snow, The Sunne Discovers.

Hee Is Not Free That Drawes His Chaine.

Love Your Neighbor, Yet Pull Not Down Your Hedge.

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Heresie May Be Easier Kept Out, Then Shooke Off.

All Feete Tread Not In One Shoe.

Good Swimmers At Length Are Drowned.

The Absent Partie Is Still Faultie.

Destiny Is Always Dark.

The House Is A Fine House, When Good Folks Are Within.

Give Loosers Leave To Talke.

Building And Marrying Of Children Are Great Wasters.

Ill Ware Is Never Cheape. [ill Ware Is Never Cheap.]

He That Contemplates Hath A Day Without Night.

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The Bit That One Eates, No Friend Makes.

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To The Counsel Of Fools A Wooden Bell.

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Reason Lies Betweene The Spurre And The Bridle. [reason Lies Between The Spur And The Bridle.]

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He That Passeth A Winters Day Escapes An Enemy.

Every Thing Is Of Use To A Houskeeper.

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

The Jews Spend At Easter.

Happier Are The Hands Compast With Yron, Then A Heart With Thoughts.

The Masters Eye Fattens The Horse, And His Foote The Ground.

Criticks Are Like Brushers Of Noblemens Cloaths.

The Wind In Ones Face Makes One Wise.

A House And A Woman Sute Excellently.

He That Takes Not Up A Pin, Slights His Wife.

Civill Wars Of France Made A Million Of Atheists, And 30000 Witches.

The Fault Is As Great As Hee That Is Faulty.

Science Stands, A Too Competant Servant, Behind Her Wrangling Underbred Masters, Holding Out Resources, Devices, And Remedies They Are Too Stupid To Use. ... And On Its Material Side, A Modern Utopia Must Needs Present These Gifts As Taken.

Give Not S. Peter So Much, To Leave Saint Paul Nothing. [give Not Saint Peter So Much, To Leave Saint Paul Nothing.]

Musick Helps Not The Tooth-ach.

A Penny Spar'd Is Twice Got.

Speak Not Of My Debts Unless You Mean To Pay Them.

Faire Language Grates Not The Tongue.

A Good Heart Cannot Lye

Doe What Thou Oughtest, And Come What Come Can.

Hell Is Full Of Good Meanings And Wishings.

Let Anger's Fire Be Slow To Burn.

All Are Presumed Good Till They Are Found At Fault.

Bells Call Others, But Themselves Enter Not Into The Church.

He That Hath Love In His Brest, Hath Spurres In His Sides.

Leave Jesting Whiles It Pleaseth, Lest It Turne To Earnest.

Only A Sweet And Virtuous Soul, Like Season'd Timbered, Never Gives; But Though The Whole World Turn To Coal, Then Chiefly Lives.

No Hair So Small But Hath His Shadow.

There Are Three Waies, The Vniversities, The Sea, The Court.

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

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

Councell Breakes Not The Head.

There Is A Remedy For Every Thing, Could Men Find It.

It Is A Great Victory That Comes Without Blood.

Many Friends In Generall, One In Speciall.

Hee Is A Foole That Thinks Not That Another Thinks.

'it's This Accursed Science,' I Cried. 'it's The Very Devil. The Mediaeval Priests And Persecutors Were Right, And The Moderns Are All Wrong. You Tamper With It-and It Offers You Gifts. And Directly You Take Them It Knocks You To Pieces In Some Unexpected Way.'

Hee That Demands Misseth Not, Unlesse His Demands Be Foolish.

The Mouse That Hath But One Hole Is Quickly Taken.

God's Breath In Man Returning To His Birth, The Soul In Paraphrase, Heart In Pilgrimage.

Who Must Account For Himselfe And Others, Must Know Both.

One Slumber Finds Another.

A Shippe And A Woman Are Ever Repairing.

He That Will Take The Bird, Must Not Skare It.

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

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

A Wicked Mans Gift Hath A Touch Of His Master.

Aske Much To Have A Little.

You Cannot Hide An Eele In A Sacke.

The Wolfe Eats Oft Of The Sheep That Have Been Warn'd.

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