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
rich good-work
Good workemen are seldome rich.
riches ancient gentility
Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.
rich weary seeking
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.
snow rich
A snow yeare, a rich yeare.
children cows rich
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
hammers strikes poor-richard
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
men pay rich
They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).
rich knows
The Rich knowes not who is his friend. [The rich knows not who is his friend.]
debt rich
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
want rich enough
Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.
work rich good-work
Good workmen are seldom rich.
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.