"It is the end that crowns us, not…" — Robert Herrick
"It is the end that crowns us, not the fight."
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Robert Herrick
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78 Quotes by Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick has 78 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
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My soul I'll pour into thee.
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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More Crowns Quotes
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us…
— William Booth
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown…
— James Buchan
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men…
— Madeleine Albright
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how…
— Julie Andrews
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and…
— Marie Antoinette
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or…
— George Arnold
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand,…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his…
— Paul Klee
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