Robert Herrick Quotes

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• In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
• The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
• Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
• Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
• Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
• Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
• A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
• Whatever comes, let's be content withal; Among God's blessings there is not one small.
• Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.
• Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
• Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.
• Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may...
• When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly,…
• Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
• It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
• Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
• Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
• In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
• It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.
• 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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