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George Herbert
Geburtstag: 3. April 1593
Todesdatum: 1. März 1633
George Herbert war ein englischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt neben John Donne und Andrew Marvell als einer der bedeutendsten „Metaphysical Poets“.
Zitate George Herbert
„292. The best mirrour is an old friend.“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Variante: 292. The best mirrour is an old friend.
„A verse may finde him, who a sermon flies
And turns delight into a sacrifice“
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
„520. Living well is the best revenge.“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
„[ Woe be to him that reads but one book. ]“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
„911. Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
„Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.“
Virtue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„682. One father is more than a hundred schoole-masters.“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
„Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.“
Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 364
„370. Would you know what mony is, go borrow some.“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
„611. Time is the rider that breakes youth.“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
„79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
„322. Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
„830. He thinkes not well that thinkes not againe.“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
„574. A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.“
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
