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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
Writer
London
England
Turning
Thou
Back
Attempted
Hast
Resolution

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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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Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
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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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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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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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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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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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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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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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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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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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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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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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