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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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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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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
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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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O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine
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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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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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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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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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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction.
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Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.
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For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
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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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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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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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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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Give house-room to the best 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
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