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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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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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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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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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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
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Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
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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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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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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
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T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
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And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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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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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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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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