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
missing trouble
He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]
firsts
He that riseth first, is first drest.
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
He that preacheth giveth almes.
He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe. [He that praiseth himself spatteteth himself.]
ought values
He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.
remember
He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.
winter enemy winter-days
He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.
ifs courteous
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.
deceiving
He that once deceives is ever suspected.
cripples ought whole
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
late ill
He that marries late, marries ill.
lying bed ill
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.