"Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner."
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George Herbert quotes (page 47 of 64)
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"Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner."
"Favour will as surely perish as life."
"Farre shooting never kild bird."
"Faire words makes mee looke to my purse."
"Hast comes not alone."
"Harken to reason or shee will bee heard."
"Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts."
"Happie is hee that chastens himselfe."
"Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind."
"Greene wood makes a hott fire."
"Great trees are good for nothing but shade."
"Great strokes make not sweete musick."
"Great paines quickly find ease."
"Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers."
"Great businesses turne on a little pinne."
"Great almes-giving lessens no mans living."
"Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke."
"Goods are theirs that enjoy them."
"Good swimmers at length are drowned."