Robert Herrick Quotes

• “Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.”

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• “To the Virgins, To Make much of Time
  
  
  Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
  Old Time is still a-flying;
  And this same flower that smiles today,
  Tomorrow will be dying.
  
  The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
  The higher he’s a-getting,
  The sooner will his race be run,
  And nearer he is to setting.
  
  That age is best which is the first,
  When youth and blood are warmer;
  But being spent, the worse, and worst
  Times still succeed the former.
  
  Then be not coy, but use your time,
  And while you may, go marry;
  For having lost but once your prime,
  You may for ever tarry.”

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• “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!”

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• “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
  Old Time is still a-flying;
  And this same flower that smiles today,
  Tomorrow will be dying.”

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• “Love is a circle that doth restless move
  In the same sweet eternity of love.”

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• “If little labour, little are our gains:
  Man's fortunes are according to his pains.”

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• “Thou art my life, my love, my heart, the very eyes of me, And hast command of every part to live and die for thee”

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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.”

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• “Tumble me down, and I will sit
  Upon my ruines (smiling yet:)
  Teare me to tatters; yet I'le be
  Patient in my necessitie.
  Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shun
  Me, as a fear'd infection:
  Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,
  Neglecting thy derision.”

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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 :
  An erring lace which here and there
  Enthrals the crimson stomacher :
  A cuff neglectful, and thereby
  Ribbons to flow confusedly :
  A winning wave (deserving note)
  In the tempestuous petticoat :
  A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
  I see a wild civility :
  Do more bewitch me than when art
  Is too precise in every part.”

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• “Here we are all, by day; by night, we're hurled
  By dreams, each one, into a several world.”

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• “Some would know
  Why I so
  Long still doe tarry,
  And ask why
  Here that I
  Live, and not marry?
  Thus I those
  Doe oppose;
  What man would be here,
  Slave to Thrall,
  If at all
  He could live free here?”

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• “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may.”

  Robert Herrick

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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;”

  Robert Herrick

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