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
thinking faults speak
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]
art home speak
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
tongue needs speak
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]
speak ill
Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]
wisdom treasure speak
Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.
patience want speak
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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.