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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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
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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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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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Then be not coy, but use your time And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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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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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
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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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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
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You say to me-wards your affection's strong Pray love me little, so you love me long.
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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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