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

Robert Herrick

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

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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.
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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.
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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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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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Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift 'T is haste Makes waste Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
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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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Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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