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1583–1648 England
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (March 3 1583 – August 20 1648) was a British soldier, diplomat, historian, poet, autobiographer and metaphysician, sometimes called "the father of deism". The poet George Herbert was his brother.
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man hath need to be forgiven.
A good rider on a good horse, is as much above himself and others, as this world can make him.
That he that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man had need to be forgiven.
Sleep, Nurse of our life, Care’s best reposer,
Now that the April of your youth adorns
Our life is but a dark and stormy night,
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.
Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch,
Sum up at night what thou has done by day.
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