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
sweet building
Building is a sweet impoverishing.
children building marrying
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
want
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
space ought
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.
ill
Better to be blinde, then to see ill.
suffering doe ill
Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
men spares asks
Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]
hands evil afar
Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]
knaves fool
Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]
children noses
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
flower benefits please
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
land sea settling
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
bees longing idle
Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.