Robert Herrick
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.Collection: Valentines
Who covets more is evermore a slave.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Happiness
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.Collection: Romantic
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.Collection: Romantic
The person lives twice who lives the first life well.Collection: Life
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.Collection: Pity
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.Collection: Fire
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.Collection: Contentment
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.Collection: Heaven
Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.Collection: Humble
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.Collection: Eye
Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.Collection: Men
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.Collection: Punishment
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.Collection: Art
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.Collection: Sea
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.Collection: Fighting
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.Collection: Sweet
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.Collection: Kings
Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.Collection: Sweet
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.Collection: Song
T is the will that makes the action good or ill.Collection: Action
A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.Collection: Shoes
The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.Collection: Doers
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.Collection: Past
When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.Collection: Past
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.Collection: Sex
Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.Collection: Fall
Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.Collection: Sweet
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.Collection: Kind