Robert Herrick Quotes

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• What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
• But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
• Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
• Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
• Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for…
• Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
• Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
• Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
• I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
• My soul I'll pour into thee.
• Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
• Who covets more is evermore a slave.
• In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
• Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.
• The person lives twice who lives the first life well
• Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
• Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
• Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
• Tears are the noble language of the eye.
• He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

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