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The person lives twice who lives the first life well

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
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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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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
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So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.
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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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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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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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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.
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For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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