Robert Herrick Quotes
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
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Asked to estimate his chances of winning his next reelection attempt:
Although not an eloquent speaker, the President had a way of sometimes coming up with a phrase that exactly captured the moment and events in ways that were just as effective.
Adams is quoting from Cato, a play by Joseph Addison.
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".