Robert Herrick

Quote: The person lives twice who lives the first life well. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Tears are the noble language of the eye. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Who covets more is evermore a slave. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Suspicion, Discontent, and Strife, Come in for Dowrie with a Wife. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke [Robert Herrick]

Quote: None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome
When no force else can get the masterdom.
[Robert Herrick]

Quote: Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.
[Robert Herrick]

Quote: No day is wholly unproductive of good. [Robert Herrick]

Quote: Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
[Robert Herrick]

Quote: 'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne.
[Robert Herrick]

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