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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
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London
England
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Blessings
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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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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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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine
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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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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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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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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
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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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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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The May-pole is up, Now give me the cup I'll drink to the garlands around it But first unto those Whose hands did compose The glory of flowers that crown'd it.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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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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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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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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