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
men good-man way
He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.
men wells
A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.
sleep men two
A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.
men
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
brother men moon
Man is all symmetrie, Full of proportions, one limbe to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath privite amitie, And both with moons and tides.
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.
men giving poor
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]
wine men laughing
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
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.]
men subjects
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.
wise men together
Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.
men firsts censure
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
men ill
Every ill man hath his ill day.
men spares asks
Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]