George Herbert citations

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“[ The war is not don so long as my enemy lives. ]”

“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.”

“170. Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.”

“386. The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.”

“305. He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.”

“20. You cannot know wine by the barrell.”

“242. The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.”

“300. He will burne his house to warme his hands.”

“473. Hope is the poor man's bread.”

“523. A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.”

“79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?”

“136. Old wine and an old friend are good provisions.”

“Do well and right, and let the world sink.”

“149. Marry your sonne when you will, your daughter when you can.”

“677. Dry bread at home is better than rost meate abroad.”

“756. Every sin brings its punishment with it.”

“714. Comparisons are odious.”

“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”

“577. Folly growes without watering.”

“533. Help thyselfe, and God will helpe thee.”

“374. All things require skill but an appetite.”

“141. Love your neighbor, yet pull not downe your hedge.”

“105. Deceive not thy physitian, confessor, nor lawyer.”

“639. Emptie vessels sound most.”

“[ An idle youth, a needy age. ]”

“611. Time is the rider that breakes youth.”

“1023. An old cat sports not with her prey.”

“413. He that once deceives is ever suspected.”

“878. It's more paine to doe nothing then something.”