George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
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Kuwait has come forward... And this means a great deal to the American people. It will mean a lot to our government. And of course if will mean a lot to the families' victimized by this hurricane.
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A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice
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One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Death keeps no calendar.
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Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
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He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot
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The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
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Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.