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
children behinds
A child correct behind and not before.
broken ill
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
night fairs
A blustering night, a faire day. [A blustering night, a fair day.]
liberty prison
A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.
dog
A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.
kings years void
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
cake
Couldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
money stones use
Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.
money love-of-money love-of-learning
The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
money poor
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
money want followers
Money wants no followers.
money
Health without money is halfe an ague.
brother men moon
Man is all symmetrie, Full of proportions, one limbe to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath privite amitie, And both with moons and tides.
honesty men giving
Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.