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
risk littles planets
If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!
school science elements
The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity...
stupid taken science
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.
plato philosophical science
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.
science devil way
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'
perseverance steps ladders
Step by step the ladder is ascended.
earth world wells
Do well and right and let the world sink.
solitude multitudes thyself
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.
brightness refuse
Money refused loose its brightness.
garden body
A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
book gains needs
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
inferiority spirit poor
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
church-bells church bells
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
made trade
Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.