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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
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More quotes by Robert Herrick
So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.
Robert Herrick
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick
No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
Robert Herrick
Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
Robert Herrick
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
Robert Herrick
Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
Robert Herrick
Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
Robert Herrick
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
Robert Herrick
When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
Robert Herrick
Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
Robert Herrick
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick
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.
Robert Herrick
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
Robert Herrick
Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
Robert Herrick
Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
Robert Herrick
Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
Robert Herrick
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
Robert Herrick
Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
Robert Herrick
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
Robert Herrick
