Robert Herrick quotes
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“Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : 'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'
#Giving Up Quotes #Heart Quotes #Never Give Up On Love Quotes
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“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 HerrickSource : Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Taylor & Francis
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“Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”
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“The person lives twice who lives the first life well”
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“A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”
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“In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : 'The Heart'
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“Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”
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“It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : 'The End'
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“In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.”
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“Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : Robert Herrick (1856). “Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick”, p.236
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“Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.58, Taylor & Francis
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“When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”
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“Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : 'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'
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“Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.”
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“Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.”
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“God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.”
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“And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.”
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“Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.102
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“The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.”
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“Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.”
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“I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die”
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“Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.”
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“To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.87
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“Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom”
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“Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.”
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“What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.”
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“Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.”
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“Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.”
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“Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.”
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“He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”
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“A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.”
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“In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.”
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“Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.”
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“In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.”
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“Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.”
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“None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.”
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“Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.”
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“Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.”
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“In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse”
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“Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!”
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“When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!”
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“Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : 'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'
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“O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine”
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“Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.”
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“Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.”
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“Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green”
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“When the artless doctor sees No one hope, but of his fees, And his skill runs on the lees; Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When his potion and his pill, Has, or none, or little skill, Meet for nothing, but to kill; Sweet Spirit, comfort me!”
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“Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.”
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“The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.”
-- Robert HerrickSource : Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.160
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“Our present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.”
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“We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.”
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“Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.”
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“Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.”
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“Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.”
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“Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.”
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“A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.”
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“Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.”
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“But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.”
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“Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.”
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“When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.”
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“T is the will that makes the action good or ill.”
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“Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.”
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“For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.”
-- Robert Herrick
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