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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
Poet
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London
England
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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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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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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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Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.
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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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A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
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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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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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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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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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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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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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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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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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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
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