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
woods
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
life-death
He that feares death lives not.
should feels
He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not. [He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not.]
men good-man way
He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.
world
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.
night contemplating
He that contemplates hath a day without night.
thinking faults speak
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]
children
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
shining
He that burnes most shines most.
men wells
A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.
sleep men two
A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.
skins
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
hands long tongue
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]
littles labour
A little labour, much health.