Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury KB was an Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. March 1583 – 20. August 1648
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Famous Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes

“Now that the April of your youth adorns
The garden of your face.”

"Ditty in Imitation of the Spanish Entre tantoque el'Avril", line 1

“Sum up at night what thou has done by day.”

This line, in the more grammatical form, "Sum up at night what thou hast done by day", is from George Herbert's The Temple, The Church Porch, line 451.
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