179 Quotes by Robert Herrick

Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

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.

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love

None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.

Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, / The shooting-stars attend thee; / And the elves also,/ Whose little eyes glow, / Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast: Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Center placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam A strawberry shows half drowned in cream?

Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.