Source: Selected poems
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Famous Robert Herrick Quotes
“Wantons we are, and though our words be such Our lives do differ from our lines by much.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: Hesperides, Or, the Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick [Followed By] His Noble Numbers
Source: Hesperides, Or, the Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick [Followed By] His Noble Numbers
“Paradise is, as from the learn'd I gather, A choir of blest souls circling in the Father.”
Source: Selected poems
“In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.”
Source: Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“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.”
Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected
“Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom”
Source: Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine
“Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.”
Source: Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...
Source: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers
“Necessity makes dastards valiant men.”
Source: The poetical works of Robert Herrick
“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.”
Source: The poetical works of Robert Herrick
“Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.”
Source: The poetical works of Robert Herrick
“He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.”
Source: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers
“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.”
Source: Poems
“Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”
Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected
“When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”
Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected
“Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.”
“In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.”
“Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.”
Source: Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick
“Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.”
Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.”
Source: Hesperides (continued) His noble numbers: or, his pious pieces
“Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.”
Source: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers
“When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.”
Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine
“T is the will that makes the action good or ill.”
Source: The poetical works of Robert Herrick
“The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.”
Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected
“Our present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.”
“The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.”
Source: Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...