Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
More Quotes from Robert Herrick:
When words we want, Love teacheth to indite;And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
Robert Herrick
And have deserved as much, Love knows,
As to be canonized 'mongst those
Whose deeds and deaths here written are
Within your Greeny-kalendar.
Robert Herrick
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
Robert Herrick
I do love I know not what Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
Robert Herrick
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.
Robert Herrick
I'll leave thee, and to Pansies come:
Comforts you'll afford me some:
You can ease my heart, and do
What Love could ne'er be brought unto.
Robert Herrick
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