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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.

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
Protestants
Thee
Loving
Live
Heart
Love
Protestant

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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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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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You say to me-wards your affection's strong Pray love me little, so you love me long.
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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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Then be not coy, but use your time And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
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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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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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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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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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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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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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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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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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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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