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
teach eloquence
Love and businesse teach eloquence.
shame
Losse embraceth shame.
long
Long jesting was never good.
care littles wealth
Little wealth, little care.
loss littles
Little losses amaze, great tame.
home journey safe
Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.
dog littles hares
Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.
fire kindles great-ones
Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.
witness spanish-proverb
Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]
feathers
Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
water
Let none say, I will not drinke water.
lying men looks
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
earnest
Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.
house lawyer built
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.