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
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Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.
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The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
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Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
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Money wants no followers.
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Would you know what money is, go borrow some.
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Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
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Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Death keeps no calendar.
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He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice
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One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
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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.