Robert Herrick
The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.Collection: Play
Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.Collection: Wealth
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.Collection: Running
The person lives twice who lives the first life wellCollection: Life
Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.Collection: Tables
Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.Collection: Heart
Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.Collection: Rubies
Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.Collection: Buying
In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.Collection: Giving
I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.Collection: Love
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.Collection: Tree