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
life-death
He that feares death lives not.
whole-life honour whole
A faire death honours the whole life.
life gains sometimes
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
life giving simplicity
Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.
life pairs windmills
You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.
good-life happy-life life-is
A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
life bad-ass reality
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
life winter two
Every mile is two in winter
life answers action
The shortest answer is doing.
ambition glorious-life trying
For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
life book magazines
The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.
life love-you neighbors-friends
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
life dies
Let all live as they would die.
aesthetic art attitude enjoyed enter life living meanings nature
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.