Robert Herrick Quotes

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• I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die
• Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
• Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
• Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
• Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.
• What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
• Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
• Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
• Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
• Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.
• He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
• A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.
• In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
• Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
• The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
• And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold…
• Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
• When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
• Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.
• Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

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