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
thinking perspective
Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.
wise wind faces
The wind in ones face makes one wise.
smell bread taste
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
lying honor gains
Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.
country cities chickens
The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.
dog drink drowning
When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink.
love heart gentle
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
business winning men
Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.
life book magazines
The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.
laziness ends
Better never begin than never make an end.
horse shoes want
For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
angel sunday blessing
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.
glasses house glass-houses
Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.
sleep three midnight
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.