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
men good-man way
He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.
world
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.
night contemplating
He that contemplates hath a day without night.
thinking faults speak
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]
children
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
shining
He that burnes most shines most.
men wells
A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.
sleep men two
A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.
skins
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
hands long tongue
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]
littles labour
A little labour, much health.
littles excuse given
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
littles
A little and good fills the trencher.