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
war giving
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]
giving
He that lends, gives.
giving small-gifts give-me
He that gives me small gifts would have me live.
giving suffering dies
He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.
giving given expected
A gift much expected is paid, not given.
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.
giving saint economy
Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]
knives giving littles
He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]
giving
Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
wrath giving weight
God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.
men giving poor
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]
giving restoring
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
giving
Give loosers leave to talke.
giving please
Fooles give to please all but their owne.