Robert Herrick Quotes

• Who covets more is evermore a slave.

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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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• Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

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

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• The body is the soul’s poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

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• Tears are the noble language of the eye.

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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.

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

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• He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

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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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• Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

  Robert Herrick

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  Tags in Virtue, Man, Lives

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

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

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

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• You say to me – wards your affection’s strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long

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• Know when to speak – for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

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Robert Herrick (37)

Birth:	24th August, 1591
Death:	15th October, 1674
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. His father died in a fall from a fourth-floor window in November 1592, when Robert was a year old The tradition that Herrick received his education at Westminster is groundless.

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