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I hope I have whetted your appetite to learn more about George Herbert.

“He loseth nothing that loseth not God.”.

“He that lives well is learned enough.”.

“Half the world knows not how the other half lives.”.

“Good words are worth much and cost little.”.

“Whose house is of glass must not throw stones at another.”.

“When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.”.

Herbert was also well-known for his Proverbs, some of which we still use today: You may be familiar with some of Herbert’s poems in hymn form, such as “Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life,” “The God of Love My Shepherd Is,” “Let All the World in Every Corner Sing,” and “Teach Me, My God and King.” It is a beautiful book of poems, filled with startling imagery, ingenious wordplay, and rich devotional thought. This collection of poems was The Temple, published later the same year Herbert died. (from Isaac Walton’s “Life of Herbert,” in George Herbert: The Complete English Poems Penguin Classics, 1991, p. If he can think it may turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul, let it be made public if not, let him burn it, for I and it are the least of God’s mercies. On his deathbed he sent a collection of his poems to a friend with the following instructions: He spent the final three years of his life preaching, caring for the people in his parish and completing the two major works for which he is best known today: The Country Parson, a work of prose which explores the personal life and ministry of the pastor, and The Temple, a collection and sequence of poems on Christian themes. In 1630 Herbert took a small church in Bremerton which he helped rebuild with his own funds.

And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes of all men and by following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus. And though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued … I will labor to make it honorable, by consecrating all my learning, and all my poor abilities, to advance the glory of that God that gave them knowing that I can never do too much for him that hath done so much for me, as to make me a Christian. It hath been formerly judged that the domestic servants of the King of Heaven should be the noblest families on earth. When challenged by friends who felt that the ministry was beneath his station in life, Herbert responded: However, in 1627 he resigned from public office and soon after began to prepare for ministry instead. In 1620 he was elected public orator of Cambridge and was elected to Parliament in 1624. He earned two degrees at Trinity College in Cambridge. He was born on Apinto a privileged Welsh family. George Herbert is one of my favorite poets. – George Herbert (The Church Porch, line 5) Sure control-clicking the mouse can be handy, but using keys is still faster.“A verse may find him who a sermon flies.” HotKeys There is no faster way to get what you want on the screen than by pressing a few keys. Memory Lane iPaste keeps track of the items that you copy in other applications and makes this available to you via a contextual menu and/or a system wide menu. When that application is brought to the front, so are the associated clips in the floating panel. Link Clip Sets to Applications Set which clip sets you want to use for which applications. Multiple Clip Sets Create unlimited clip sets each of which can hold unlimited numbers of clips.Īll of these at your finger tips results in increased productivity. Floating Palette Quickly and easily access your clips and clip sets. Rich Text, Images and More iPaste supports many different types of data so that you easily manage a slew of recently copied items or frequently used items including: plain text, rich text, TIFF, PDF, PICT, JPEG, GIF and more. Small Footprint We all know that Dock space can be precious, with iPaste you can choose to not show the application in the Dock.įurthermore, add it to your login items (by going to System Preferences>Accounts) and then it will become an integrated background utility that you won't even know is running, except that you will be able to harness its power.

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