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
action praise turns
Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]
eye hands letters
Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.
bribe
Neither bribe nor loose thy right.
teeth helping
Musick helps not the tooth-ach.
traveller
Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.
silence speech
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]
Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.
modesty honour
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
house
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.
men
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.
daughter son your-son
Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can. [Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.]
daughter your-daughter our-daughter
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
mourning
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
many-friends
Many friends in generall, one in speciall.