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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
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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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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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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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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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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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Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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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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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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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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The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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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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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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