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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
Writer
London
England
Life
Jove
Wise
Time
Love

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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.
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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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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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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
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I dare not ask a kiss I dare not beg a smile Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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