When one is past, another care we have:
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Quotes from Hesperides — Robert Herrick
1591–1674 England
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Hesperides (1648)
Despair takes heart, when there's no hope to speed:
The coward then takes arms and does the deed.
Hesperides (1648)
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse;
Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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I write of hell; I sing (and ever shall)
Of heaven, and hope to have it after all.
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The readinesse of doing doth expresse
No other but the doer's willingnesse.
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Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green.
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That happiness does still the longest thrive,
Where joys and griefs have turns alternative.
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Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn
Upon her wings presents the god unshorn.
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To work a wonder, God would have her shown
At once a bud and yet a rose full-blown.
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Come, bring with a noise,
My merry, merry boys,
The Christmas log to the firing.
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Love is a circle that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of love.
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See how Aurora throws her fair
Fresh-quilted colours through the air.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Herrick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.