“Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”
Robert Herrick Quotes
1591 – 1674
English poet and cleric, author of "Hesperides".
21 quotesAbout Robert Herrick on Wikipedia
“Love is a circle that doth restless move / In the same sweet eternity of love.”
“Each must in virtue strive for to excel; / That man lives twice that lives the first life well.”
“Art quickens nature; care will make a face; / Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”
“Let's live with that small pittance that we have; / Who covets more, is evermore a slave.”
“Who with a little cannot be content, / Endures an everlasting punishment.”
“In things a moderation keep: / Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep.”
“Know when to speak; for many times it brings / Danger to give the best advice to kings.”
“Hast thou attempted greatness? then go on: / Back-turning slackens resolution.”
“If little labour, little are our gains: / Man's fortunes are according to his pains.”
“Against diseases here the strongest fence / Is the defensive virtue, abstinence.”
“When fear admits no hope of safety, then / Necessity makes dastards valiant men.”
“Let moderation on thy passions wait; / Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.”
“Like will to like, each creature loves his kind; / Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.”
“Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all / Is, when love's honey has a dash of gall.”
“Of all our parts, the eyes express / The sweetest kind of bashfulness.”
“The body sins not, 'tis the will / That makes the action, good or ill.”
“In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, / Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.”
