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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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
Delighting
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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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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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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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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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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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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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When one is past, another care we have Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
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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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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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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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Then be not coy, but use your time And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
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