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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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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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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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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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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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Then be not coy, but use your time And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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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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Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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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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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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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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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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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
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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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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 sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
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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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