12 Quotes by Robert Herrick
- 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.
- Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add 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 kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
- Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
- Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
- What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
- Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
- Tears are the noble language of the eye.
- The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
- Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
- Who covets more is evermore a slave.
- Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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