George Herbert Quotes

• I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

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• ‘You must sit down,’ says Love, ‘and taste my meat,’ So I did sit and eat.

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• Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back; Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If I lacked any thing.

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• I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

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• Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

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• Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown.

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• Teach me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in any thing To do it as for Thee.

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• A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes it and th’ action fine.

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• I got me flowers to strew Thy way, I got me boughs off many a tree; But Thou wast up by break of day, And brought’st Thy sweets along with Thee.

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• Let all the world in ev’ry corner sing My God and King.

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• Avoid, Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

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• A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.

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• He that lives in hope dances without music.

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• Woe be to him that reads but one book.

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• The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

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• Love your neighbor, yet pull not Down your hedge.

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• Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

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• 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.

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• Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

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• 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.

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George Herbert (85)

Birth:	3rd April, 1593
Death:	1st March, 1633
Nationality:	Welsh
Profession:	Poet, Priest

About

George Herbert was born in Montgomery, Wales. He was a Welsh poet, orator, and Anglican priest. He earned a B.A. degree in 1613 and an M.A. degree in 1616 from Trinity College, Cambridge University. In 1624 and briefly in 1625 he served in the Parliament of England. He wrote several books include: The Temple, The country parson, Poems of George Herbert, The complete English poems, A Priest to the Temple, and A Night in a Moorish Harem.

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