Robert Herrick Quotes

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The starres of the night Will lend thee their light Like Tapers cleare without number.

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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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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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Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

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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 tempter me pursueth
With the sins of all my youth,
And half damns me with untruth,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

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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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In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.

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Go to your banquet then, but use delight
So as to rise still with an appetite.

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Whatever comes, let's be content withal; Among God's blessings there is not one small.

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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.

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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.

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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.

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When his potion and his pill His, or none, or little skill Meet for nothing, but to kill; Sweet Spirit comfort me!!

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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

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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.

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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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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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