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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
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In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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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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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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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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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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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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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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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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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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A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.
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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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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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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
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