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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
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London
England
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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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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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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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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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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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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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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