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
eye bees loses
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
jest loses
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.
care paine loses
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
should ifs loses
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
lending loses
Lend only what you can afford to lose.
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.
eyes hundred seller
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
delight sacrifice sermon turn verse
A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice
good hundred mother worth
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
course deal great kuwait means victimized
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