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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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Kind
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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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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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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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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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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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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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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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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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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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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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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Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
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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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Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
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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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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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