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
plato simple missing
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.
doubt knows
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
prayer ocean sea
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
flower identity garlands
One flower makes no garland.
spring may spring-season
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
teamwork two dwarves
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
respect
He that respects not is not respected.
patience want speak
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
life love-you neighbors-friends
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
life dies
Let all live as they would die.
knowledge grace guides
Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.
hope food men
Hope is the poor man's bread.
courage danger
Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.
thanksgiving thankful gratitude
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.