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Robert Herrick Inspirational Quotes (72)

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Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There, Where my Julia's lips do smile There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.
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O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.
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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
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You say to me-wards your affection's strong Pray love me little, so you love me long.
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A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction.
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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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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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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
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When the artless doctor sees No one hope, but of his fees, And his skill runs on the lees Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When his potion and his pill, Has, or none, or little skill, Meet for nothing, but to kill Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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