Quotations by Robert Herrick
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Born: Sunday, December 31, 1899
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: Doubt, End, Nothing, Will) Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: Love, Heart, Will) Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: End, Fight, First) Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: Life, Virtue, First, Man) 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 (Keywords: Kiss, First) He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: First) In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: Kings, Moderation, Sheep, Skin) 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 (Keywords: Happiness, Energy, Interest, Man, Open, Pursuit, Wit) Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: Advice, Danger, Kings) Tears are the noble language of the eye. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: Eye, Language, Tears) The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: Home, Soul, Body, Poor) The person lives twice who lives the first life well. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: Life, First) Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: Old, Succeed) What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. - Robert Herrick (Keywords: Love, Kiss) Who covets more is evermore a slave. - Robert Herrick
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