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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
Jove
Wise
Time
Love
Life

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Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.
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Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
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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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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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Then be not coy, but use your time And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
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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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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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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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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
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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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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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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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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
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