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George Herbert [1593-1633] British

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Sonnet

George Herbert was a Welsh-born poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as one of the foremost British devotional lyricists."

Legal, Anger, Best, Communication, Dreams, Failure, Faith, Father's Day, Forgiveness, Friendship, Good, Great, Health, Humor, Knowledge, Life, Love, Motivational, Peace, Strength, War, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Living well is the best revenge.	Best	101
Good words are worth much, and cost little.	Communication, Good	102
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.	Love	103
Love and a cough cannot be hid.		104
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.	Faith	105
Never was a miser a brave soul.		106
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.		107
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.	Father's Day	108
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.	Motivational	109
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.		110
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.		111
None knows the weight of another's burden.	Wisdom	112
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.	Humor, Knowledge	113
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.	Legal	114
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.		115
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.	Forgiveness	116
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.	Strength	117
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.	Great	118
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.		119
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.	Failure	120
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.		121
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.	Health	122
One sword keeps another in the sheath.		123
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.	Peace, War	124
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.		125
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.	Friendship	126
Be thrifty, but not covetous.		201
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.		202
The offender never pardons.		203
Night is the mother of counsels.	Dreams	204
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.	Anger	205
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.		206
Life is half spent before we know what it is.	Life	207
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.	Legal	208
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.		209
The eyes have one language everywhere.		210
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.		211
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.		212
Punishment is lame, but it comes.		213
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.		214
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.		215
The shortest answer is doing.		216
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.		217
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.		218
The resolved mind hath no cares.		219
Spend not on hopes.		220
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.		221
Better never begin than never make an end.		222
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.		223
He hath no leisure who useth it not.		224
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.		225
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.		226
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.		301

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