Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes (9 quotes)

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“I must no less commend the study of anatomy, which whosoever considers, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxal, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.”

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

Source: The Autobiography, P. 31

“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man hath need to be forgiven.”

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

Source: The Autobiography, P. 34

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

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

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

“Our life is but a dark and stormy night,
To which sense yields a weak and glimmering light,
While wandering Man thinks he discerneth all
By that which makes him but mistake and fall.”

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

"To his Mistress for her True Picture", line 49

“A good rider on a good horse, is as much above himself and others, as this world can make him.”

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

Source: The Autobiography, P. 39

“There [is] no little vigour and force added to words, when they are delivered in a neat and fine way, and somewhat out of the ordinary road, common and dull language relishing more of the clown than the gentleman. But herein also affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself, than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.”

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

Source: The Autobiography, Pp. 35-6

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

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

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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“Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch,
Much less your fairest mind invade:
Were not our souls immortal made
Our equal loves can make them such.”

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

"An Ode Upon a Question Moved Whether Love Should Continue for Ever", line 121

“Sleep, Nurse of our life, Care’s best reposer,
Nature's high'st rapture, and the vision giver.”

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

"To his Mistress for her True Picture", line 11

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