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
Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.
mind world
Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.
fire woods
Greene wood makes a hott fire.
tree shade
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
strokes
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
ease paine
Great paines quickly find ease.
fortune misfortunes
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
grows
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
littles great-business
Great businesses turne on a little pinne.
giving
Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
gossip frogs
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
enjoy goods
Goods are theirs that enjoy them.
rich good-work
Good workemen are seldome rich.
water buckets quench
Good words quench more then a bucket of water.