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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
Writer
London
England
Speak
Give
Best
Brings
Many
Kings
Giving
Advice
Danger
Dangerous
Times

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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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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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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.
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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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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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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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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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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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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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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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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
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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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