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
quality quarrels persons
Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.
horse ass carrie
I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.
house littles poverty
God oft hath a great share in a little house.
lending loses
Lend only what you can afford to lose.
haste
Good and quickly seldom meet.
god arms strikes
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.
clothes years endurance
Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.
fear disease
Fear kills more than disease.
guests conversation miscellaneous
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
thinking think-twice bargains
On a good bargain think twice.
war advice advise
Advise none to marry or go to war.
ayurveda digestion good-digestion
A good digestion turneth all to health.
sacrifice may delight
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice...
men clothes sight
O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!