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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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In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
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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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A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction.
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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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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
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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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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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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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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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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.
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Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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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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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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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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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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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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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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