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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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The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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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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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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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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So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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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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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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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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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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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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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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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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