Robert Herrick Quotes
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Citations
Herrick, Robert. "The End." Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane & Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, 1648.
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Actually this is an ancient Roman Proverb.
Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".