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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
Love
Life
Jove
Wise
Time

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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.
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Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
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But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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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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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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Give house-room to the best 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
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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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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction.
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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
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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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What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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