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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
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London
England
Thing
Succeed
Things
Hold
Time
Grow
Turn
Grows
Turns
Shift
Times
Former
Doe
Thus

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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There, Where my Julia's lips do smile There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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