Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury: Man

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury was Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury: 18 quotes 2 likes

“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

Nature , Study , Parting

“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

Forgiveness

“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

Life , Thinking , Sense , Light

“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

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