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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
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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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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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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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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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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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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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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
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But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
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Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There, Where my Julia's lips do smile There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
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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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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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