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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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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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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.
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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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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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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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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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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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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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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
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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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Give house-room to the best 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
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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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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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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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