Quotes from Jacula Prudentum — George Herbert
1593–1633 England
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All truths are not to be told.
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Weigh justly and sell dearely.
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1023. An old cat sports not with her prey.
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511. Pension never inriched young man.
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His bark is worse than his bite.
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759. Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
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Some had rather lose their friend then their jest.
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Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.
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Never had ill workman good tooles.
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583. Thursday come and the week's gone.
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621. Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.
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215. Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
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Woe be to him that reads but one book.
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A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.
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When war begins then hell openeth.
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