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George Herbert
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“It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom.”
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Recorded in: Letter to Nicholas Ferrar (1632-33), reported in A. L. Maycock, Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding (London: SPCK, 1938)
“My meaning (dear Mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory.”
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Recorded in: Letter to His Mother (1609)
“Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.”
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Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 364
“To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.”
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“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie.”
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“Like summer friends, Flies of estate and sunneshine.”
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“Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.”
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“Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.”
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“Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?”
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“A verse may finde him,who a sermon flies And turns delight into a sacrifice.”
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“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee.”
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“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
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“By all means use sometimes to be alone.”
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“By no means run in debt: take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.”
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“Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.”
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“Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”
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“Be useful where thou livest.”
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“Man is God's image; but a poor man is Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard.”
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“Chase brave employment with a naked sword Throughout the world.”
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“Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angels' music.”
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“The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.”
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“A broken ALTAR, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears; Whose parts are as thy hand did frame; No workman's tool hath touch'd the same. A HEART alone Is such a stone As nothing but Thy pow'r doth cut. Wherefore each part Of my hard heart Meets in this frame, To praise thy name. That if I chance to hold my peace, These stones to praise thee may not cease. O let thy blessed SACRIFICE be mine, And sanctify this ALTAR to be thine.”
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“Yet Lord restore thine image, hear my call: And though my hard heart scare to thee can groan, Remember that thou once didst write in stone.”
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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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“Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poor: With thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me.”
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“My tender age in sorrow did begin: And still with sicknesses and shame Thou didst so punish sin, That I became Most thin. With thee Let me combine, And feel this day thy victory: For, If I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me”
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“Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing, My God and King.”
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“Whether I fly with angels, fall with dust, Thy hands made both, and I am there; Thy power and love, my love and trust Make one place ev'ry where.”
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“Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?”
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“Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire, Lets his own ashes choke his soul.”
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“My soul's a shepherd too; a flock it feeds Of thoughts, and words, and deeds.”
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“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die.”
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“Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.”
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“I cannot skill of these thy ways. Lord, thou didst make me, yet thou woundest me; Lord, thou dost wound me, yet thou dost relieve me: Lord, thou relievest, yet I die by thee: Lord, thou dost kill me, yet thou dost reprieve me.But when I mark my life and praise, Thy justice me most fitly praise: For, I do praise thee, yet I praise thee not: My prayers mean thee, yet my prayers stray: I would do well, yet sin the hand hath got: My soul doth love thee, yet it loves delay. I cannot skill of these my ways.”
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“Who goes to bed and does not pray, Maketh two nights to every day.”
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“Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.”
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“Most things move th' under-jaw; the Crocodile not. Most things sleep lying; th' Elephant leans or stands.”
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“I gave to Hope a watch of mine; but he An Anchor gave to me.”
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“Surely if each saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse, And live apart.”
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“Do not beguile my heart, Because thou art My power and wisdom. Put me not to shame, Because I am Thy clay that weeps, thy dust that calls.”
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“With sick and famish'd eyes, With doubling knees and weary bones, To thee my cries, To thee my groans, To thee my sighs, my tears ascend: No end?My throat, my soul is hoarse; My heart is wither'd like a ground Which thou dost curse. My thoughts turn round, And make me giddy; Lord, I fall, Yet call.”
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“Thou tarriest, while I die, And fall to nothing: thou dost reign, And rule on high, While I remain In bitter grief: yet I am styl'd Thy child.”
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“I struck the board, and cry'd, No more. I will abroad. What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free; free as the road, Loose as the wind, as large as store. Shall I be still in suit? Have I no harvest but a thorn To let me blood, and not restore What I have lost with cordial fruit? Sure there was wine Before my sighs did dry it: there was corn Before my tears did drown it; Is the year only lost to me? Have I no bays to crown it?”
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“Thy rope of sands, Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.”
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“Call in thy death's head there: tie up thy fears.”
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“But as I rav'd and grew more fierce and wild At every word, Methought I heard one calling, Child! And I reply'd, My Lord.”
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“He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature: So both should losers be.”
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“Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast.”
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“Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.”
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“Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recovered greenness?”
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