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Robert Herrick has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
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Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
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Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up…
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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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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
— Robert Herrick
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It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
— Tiberius
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You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.
— Amarillo Slim
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In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John…
— Tom Paxton
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Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.
— Mike McDermott
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I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
— Robert Plant
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight,…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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