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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
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London
England
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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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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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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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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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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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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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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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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
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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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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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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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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
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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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