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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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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
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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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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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In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
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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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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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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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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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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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What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
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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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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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Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
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