Robert Herrick Short Quotes

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Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon.

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I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.

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Science in God, is known to be A Substance, not a Qualitie.

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

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A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.

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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

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

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That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer.

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Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.

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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

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And yet each verse of thine
Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.

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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

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In sober mornings do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse

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In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

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Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

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

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Love is a circle that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of love.

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

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Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.

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

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Against diseases here the strongest fence
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence.

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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 one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

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

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And once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)
Knock at a star with my exalted head.

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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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Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg,
Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.

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If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

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For my Embalming (Sweetest) there will be
No Spices wanting, when I'm laid by thee.

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