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
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.
drink wit
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
sweet giving soul
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
men might hours
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
lions fierce paint
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.
lying heart men
Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
men deeds
Words are women, deeds are men.
men world
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
hymns soul lines
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.
sweet sky earth
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky...