| 38 Famous Quotes by Robert Herrick
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“He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke”
Obligation Quotes |
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“None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware”
Pity Quotes |
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“Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome
When no force else can get the masterdom.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Money Gets the Mastery
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“Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Money Gets the Mastery
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“No day is wholly unproductive of good.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Money Gets the Mastery
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“Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.”
Repentance Quotes Source: Hesperides--Penitence
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“'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne.”
Tyranny Quotes Source: Kings and Tyrants
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“Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.”
Past Quotes Source: The Present Time Best Pleaseth
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“Let's live with that small pittance which we have;
Who covets more is evermore a slave.”
Content Quotes Source: The Covetous Still Captive
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“If little labour. little are our gaines:
Man's fortunes are according to his paines.”
Labor Quotes Source: Hesperides--No Paines, No Gaines
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“A sweet disorder in the dresse
Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Delight in Disorder
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“A winning wave, (deserving note.)
In the tempestuous petticote,
A careless shoe-string, in whose tye
I see a wilde civility,--
Doe more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Delight in Disorder
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“A careless shoe string, in whose tie
I see a wilde civility.”
Shoemaking Quotes Source: Delight in Disorder
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“For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee
Which bore my Love away
I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave,
I'le seek him in your eyes.”
Bees Quotes Source: Mad Nan's Song
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“I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.”
Flies Quotes Source: The Amber Bead
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“Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit,
Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.”
Hell Quotes Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
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“Hell is paved with good samaritans.”
Hell Quotes Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
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“Maybe this world is another planet's hell.”
Hell Quotes Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
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“I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.”
Spring Quotes Source: Hesperides
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“Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.”
Disease Quotes Source: Abstinence
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“It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”
End Quotes Source: Hesperides (340)
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“Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse;
Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.”
Temptation Quotes Source: Hesperides-Temptations
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“What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve:
The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.”
Kisses Quotes Source: Hesperides--A Kiss
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“Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.”
Kisses Quotes Source: Hesperides--To Anthea
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“Welcome, maids of honor,
You doe bring
In the spring,
And wait upon her.”
Violets Quotes Source: To Violets
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