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
war giving
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]
war thee
Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.
atheist war france
Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.
war good-war
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
war long enemy
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]
war men hunting
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.
peace war art-of-war
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
war
A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.
war hell
When war begins, then hell openeth.
war advice advise
Advise none to marry or go to war.
death war dying
War is death's feast.
identify primal wartime
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
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.