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
littles
He that hath little is the lesse durtie.
littles labour
A little labour, much health.
littles excuse given
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
littles
A little and good fills the trencher.
littles
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
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.]
littles great-business
Great businesses turne on a little pinne.
men littles
From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]
littles
Aske much to have a little.
littles may ends
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
littles fine ill
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
hurt men littles
There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.
littles patient
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
littles bees
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. [The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]