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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
Poet
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London
England
Best
Live
Selfe
Praise
Joy
Age
Times
Past

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When one is past, another care we have Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
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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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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
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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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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.
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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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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.
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