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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

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
Loving
Give
Giving
Heart
Love
Thee

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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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But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
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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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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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Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.
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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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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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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
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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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Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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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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Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
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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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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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