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A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
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
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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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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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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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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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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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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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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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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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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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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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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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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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Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
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