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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
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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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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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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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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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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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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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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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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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