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
witty purpose
Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
country witty holy
He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.
fool hours wit
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
fingers wit
The Germans wit is in his fingers.
witness spanish-proverb
Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]
witty laughter ignorance
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
drink wit
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
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.