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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
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London
England
Jove
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Time
Love
Life
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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
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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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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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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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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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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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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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When one is past, another care we have Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
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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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When the artless doctor sees No one hope, but of his fees, And his skill runs on the lees Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When his potion and his pill, Has, or none, or little skill, Meet for nothing, but to kill Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
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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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And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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