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
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.
commitment mind care
The resolved mind hath no cares.
taken literature holes
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
wish literature hell
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
glasses alcohol drink
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
memories men rocks
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
applying call certain others scientist situation solving
Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.
directly events experience future including passage passing present process
Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
dealt experience individual phases social standpoint various
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
method settling utterly
Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
aware becomes gives himself human individual others role thus
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.