Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
About George Herbert
George Herbertwas an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as “one of the foremost British devotional lyricists.” He was born in Wales into an artistic and wealthy family and largely raised in England.
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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
The resolved mind hath no cares.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
The shortest answer is doing.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Spend not on hopes.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Living well is the best revenge.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Better never begin than never make an end.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Never was a miser a brave soul.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
The offender never pardons.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Night is the mother of counsels.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)