Robert Herrick - Time Quotes

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick

We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a Spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay.

Robert Herrick

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.

Robert Herrick

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My self now live: this age best pleaseth me.

Robert Herrick

Then while time serves, and we are but decaying.
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.

Robert Herrick

God doth not promise here to man that He
Will 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.

Robert Herrick

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.

Robert Herrick