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
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A great ship asks deep water.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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To a great night, a great Lanthorne.
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The noise is greater then the nuts.
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Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.
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