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.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

The resolved mind hath no cares.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

The shortest answer is doing.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

The eyes have one language everywhere.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Spend not on hopes.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Better never begin than never make an end.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Never was a miser a brave soul.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

None knows the weight of another’s burden.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

The offender never pardons.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Night is the mother of counsels.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

George Herbert

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)