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
thinking faults speak
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]
faults
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
truth errors faults
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
horse faults saddles
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.
faults
The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.
men good-man faults
Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.
wise punishment faults
He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.
justice faults found
All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
drew dust guilty love soul
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
dog vain bark
An old dog barks not in vain.
calendars
Death keeps no calendar.
hath
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
eyes hundred seller
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
delight sacrifice sermon turn verse
A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice