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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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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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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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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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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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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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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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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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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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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
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You say to me-wards your affection's strong Pray love me little, so you love me long.
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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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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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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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