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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
Best
Brings
Many
Kings
Giving
Advice
Danger
Dangerous
Times
Speak
Give

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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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Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
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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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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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I dare not ask a kiss I dare not beg a smile Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee.
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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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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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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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