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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
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England
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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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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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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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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But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
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