Robert Herrick Quotes

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

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  Giving Up, Heart, Never Give Up On Love

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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

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  Fighting, Victory, Crowns

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

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• A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

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  Fire, Sparks, Neglected

  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.

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  Sweet, Prayer, Heart

  'The Heart'

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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.

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  Running, Flower, Race

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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• The person lives twice who lives the first life well

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  Life, Workout, Firsts

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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.

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  Love, Heart, Kissing

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

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

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  Art, Care, Faces

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.102

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

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  Contentment, Slave, Evermore

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• Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.

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  Wealth

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

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

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  Fighting, Crowns, Ends

  'The End'

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

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  Science, Doubt, Research

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

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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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  Comfort, Pits, Hell

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.251

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

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  Play, Theatre, Lasts

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.160

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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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  Humble, Heaven, Lows

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

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

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  Kings, Sheep, Skins

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

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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.

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  Eye, Tears, Noble

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

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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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  Writing, Mean, Giving

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.36

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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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  Money, Fighting, Silver

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.136

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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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  Eye, Brave, Bees

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.254

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• The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.

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  Doers, Readiness

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• Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Shine On

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• The May-pole is up,
  Now give me the cup;
  I'll drink to the garlands around it;
  But first unto those
  Whose hands did compose
  The glory of flowers that crown'd it.

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  Flower, Hands, Giving

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

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• Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
  Full and fair ones; come and buy.
  If so be you ask me where
  They do grow, I answer: There,
  Where my Julia's lips do smile;
  There's the land, or cherry-isle,
  Whose plantations fully show
  All the year where cherries grow.

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  Years, Land, Answers

  'Cherry-Ripe'

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• Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
  To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,
  And sweet as Flora. Take no care
  For jewels for your gown or hair
  Fear not; the leaves will strew
  Gems in abundance upon you
  Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
  Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
  Come, and receive them while the light
  Hangs on the dew-locks of the night
  And Titan on the eastern hill
  Retires himself, or else stands still
  Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying
  Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

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  Sweet, Spring, Night

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

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