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.
justice faults found
All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
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.
dog vain bark
An old dog barks not in vain.
calendars
Death keeps no calendar.
drew dust guilty love soul
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
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Kuwait has come forward... And this means a great deal to the American people. It will mean a lot to our government. And of course if will mean a lot to the families' victimized by this hurricane.
grief nor pot quarrel thirst
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot
hath
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.