Robert Herrick Quotes

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• Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Giving Up, Heart, Never Give Up On Love

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

  Robert Herrick

  Fire, Sparks, Neglected

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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

  Robert Herrick

  Pain, Men, Littles

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

  Robert Herrick

  Fighting, Victory, Crowns

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.

  Robert Herrick

  Pity, Snares

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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 Herrick

  Love, Heart, Kissing

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Taylor & Francis

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• I dare not ask a kiss;
  I dare not beg a smile;
  Lest having that or this,
  I might grow proud the while.
  No, no, the utmost share
  Of my desire shall be
  Only to kiss that air,
  That lately kissed thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Kissing, Air, Desire

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.64

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

  Robert Herrick

  Humble, Heaven, Lows

  Robert Herrick (1856). “Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick”, p.236

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• Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

  Robert Herrick

  Contentment, Slave, Evermore

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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 Herrick

  Eye, Tears, Noble

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.58, Taylor & Francis

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• Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
  Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.

  Robert Herrick

  Science, Doubt, Research

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
  The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Too Late, May

  Robert Herrick (1891). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Discontent, Stills

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.128

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• Bid me to live, and I will live
  Thy Protestant to be:
  Or bid me love, and I will give
  A loving heart to thee,
  A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
  A heart as sound and free
  As in the whole world thou canst find,
  That heart I'll give to thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Love, Life, Heart

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

  Robert Herrick

  Being Happy, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

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

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Moving, Love Is

  'Love What It Is'

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• It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

  Robert Herrick

  Fighting, Crowns, Ends

  'The End'

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

  Robert Herrick

  Punishment, Littles, Endure

  Robert Herrick, Tom Cain, Ruth Connolly (2013). “The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick”, p.202, Oxford University Press

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

  Robert Herrick

  Sea, Gale, Sail

  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 Herrick

  Sweet, Prayer, Heart

  'The Heart'

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• Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.

  Robert Herrick

  Wealth

  1648 'A Country Life: To His Brother, M. Tho. Herrick'.

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• Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs
  Show me those fleshy principalities;
  Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit,
  Having a living fountain under it;
  Show me thy waist, then let me there withal,
  By the ascension of thy lawn, see all.

  Robert Herrick

  Sexy, Feet, Legs

  Robert Herrick (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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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 Herrick

  Love, Art, Eye

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
  Of April, May, or June, and July flowers.
  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
  Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Flower, June

  Robert Herrick, John Donne (1948). “The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne”

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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 Herrick

  Running, Flower, Race

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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