George Herbert Quotes About Shame

Quotes about: Shame

• Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

  George Herbert

  Angel, Sunday, Blessing

  George Herbert (1853). “The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life”, p.47

• Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
  When once it is within thee; but before
  Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame,
  Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.
  It is most just to throw that on the ground,
  Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.

  George Herbert

  Glasses, Lists, Shame

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.4

• Losse embraceth shame.

  George Herbert

  Shame

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.345

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