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

  Robert Herrick

  Kings, Sheep, Skins

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

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

  Robert Herrick

  Art, Care, Faces

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

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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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• 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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• The person lives twice who lives the first life well

  Robert Herrick

  Life, Workout, Firsts

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• When words we want, love teacheth to indite;
  And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.

  Robert Herrick

  Love, Writing, Want

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

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

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  Tables, Eating, Merriment

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.131

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• Who covets more is evermore a slave.

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  Greed, Slave, Evermore

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

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• A sweet disorder in the dress
  Kindles in clothes a wantonness
  A lawn about the shoulders thrown
  Into a fine distraction.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Clothes, Dresses

  "Delight in Disorder" l. 1 (1648)

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

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Blood, Age

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.87

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• Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Heart, Thee, Protestants

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

  Robert Herrick

  Rubies, Lips, Jewelry

  Robert Herrick, J. N., John NOTT (M.D., of Bristol.) (1810). “Select Poems from the Hesperides, ... with ... remarks by J. N[ott], etc”, p.13

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• Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score:
  Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.

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  Funny, Kissing, Giving

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

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• What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

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  Sweet, Love You, Kissing

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.159

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• Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

  Robert Herrick

  Buying, Spirit, God Love

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

  Robert Herrick

  Giving, Action, Vain

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• But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
  These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
  And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.

  Robert Herrick

  Sunset, Two, Wish

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• I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.

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  Love, Sometimes, Knows

  Robert Herrick (1810). “Select poems from the Hesperides, with occasional remarks by J.N.”, p.156

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• Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
  Him, as He is, is labour without end.

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  God, Ends, Hard

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

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• Well I sup and well I dine,
  When I drink my frolic wine.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Drink, Dine

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.164

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• Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,
  Short lot, or not, to be content with all.

  Robert Herrick

  Fall, Contentment

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

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• Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,
  Adversity then breeds the discontent.

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  Adversity, Love Is, Wealth

  Robert Herrick (1856). “Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick”, p.37

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