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
law
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
law rooms action
Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
law rooms action
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.
law twenties suits
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]
morning night law
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
house lawyer built
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
law
Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.
compromise fats lawsuit
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
law draws cables
Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
grief physicians lawyer
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
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.