Differences Quote by Robert Herrick

“Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.”

Robert Herrick

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Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

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Whatever comes, let's be content withal; Among God's blessings there is not one small.

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When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head;…

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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.

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Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts…

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Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is…

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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.

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Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs Show me those fleshy principalities; Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit,…

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