“If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.”
Quote by Robert Herrick
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This volume presents a collection of writings that examine the relationship between human experience and divine or spiritual subjects. The title draws upon the classical Greek myth of the Hesperides, the nymphs who guarded the golden apples in a mythical garden, evoking imagery of poetic beauty and timeless wonder. The work appears to encompass both secular and sacred themes, weaving together reflections on mortal concerns with explorations of the transcendent or divine. As suggested by the title's phrasing of "works both human and divine," the collection likely contains diverse pieces that address the full spectrum of human emotion and spiritual contemplation, potentially through poetry, prose, or mixed literary forms. more
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“Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.”
“Tears are the noble language of the eye.”
“He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.”
“In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.”
“The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.”
“But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.”
