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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
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London
England
Comes
Withal
Blessings
Content
Blessing
Among
Small
Whatever
Happiness

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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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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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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
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And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.
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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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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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