George Herbert Quotes (1593-1633)

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George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was an English poet and orator.

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George Herbert on English proverbs (alphabetically by proverb) 9 quotes

β€œA bad workman blames his tools.”
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George Herbert on Action 3 quotes

β€œThe shortest answer is doing.”
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George Herbert on Truth 3 quotes

β€œAll truths are not to be told.”
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George Herbert on Eating 3 quotes

β€œGluttony kills more than the sword.”
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George Herbert on Lying 3 quotes

β€œShow me a liar, and I will show thee a thief.”
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George Herbert on Prayer 3 quotes

β€œHe that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.”
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George Herbert on Sabbath 3 quotes

β€œSweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky.”
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George Herbert on Hearing 2 quotes

β€œLittle pitchers have wide ears.”
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George Herbert on Life 2 quotes

β€œLet all live as they would die.”
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George Herbert on Words 2 quotes

β€œWords are women, deeds are men.”
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George Herbert on Providence 2 quotes

β€œGod sends cold according to clothes.”
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George Herbert on Fire 2 quotes

β€œA crooked log makes a straight fire.”
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George Herbert on George Herbert Mead 3 quotes

β€œMan lives in a world of Meaning. What he sees and hears means what he will or might handle.”
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George Herbert on Jesus

β€œWho did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone? Had He life, or had He none? If he had not liv'd for thee, Thou hadst died most wretchedly And two deaths had been thy fee.”
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Richard Baxter on George Herbert

β€œI must confess, after all that, next to Scripture Poems, there are none so savoury to me, as Mr. George Herbert’s, and Mr. George Sandys’s. I know that Cooly and others far excel Herbert in Wit and accurate composure. But (as Seneca takes with me above all his Contemporaries, because he speaketh Things by words, feelingly and seriously, like a man that is past jest, so) Herbert speaks to God like one that really believeth a God, and where business in the world is most with God. Heart-work and Heaven-work make up his Books.”
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Henry Vaughan on George Herbert

β€œThe first, that with any effectual success attempted a diversion of this foul and overflowing stream, was the blessed man, Mr. George Herbert, whose holy life and verse gained many pious converts, of whom I am the least; and gave the first check to a most flourishing and admired wit of his time.”
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Izaak Walton on George Herbert

β€œGeorge Herbert, who was the Author of the Temple or Sacred Poems and Ejaculations. (A Book, in which by declaring his own spiritual Conflicts he hath Comforted and raised many a dejected and discomposed Soul, and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts: A Book, by the frequent reading whereof, and the assistance of that Spirit that seemed to inspire the Author, the Reader may attain habits of Peace and Piety, and all the gifts of the Holy Ghost and Heaven: and may by still reading, still keep those sacred fires burning upon the Altar of so pure an heart, as shall free it from the anxieties of this world, and keep it fixt upon things that are above).”
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About George Herbert

George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was an English poet and orator.