Robert Herrick Quotes

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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
Him, as He is, is labour without end.

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Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent.

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

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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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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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Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

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Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

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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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Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

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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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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.

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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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