“Each must in virtue strive for to excel; / That man lives twice that lives the first life well.”

— Robert Herrick, Hesperides, 1648, "Virtue"

About Robert Herrick

1591 – 1674

English poet and cleric, author of "Hesperides".

“Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”

“Love is a circle that doth restless move / In the same sweet eternity of love.”

“Wealth cannot make a life, but love.”

“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.”

“The universe is flux, life is opinion.”

“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”

“I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”