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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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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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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In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
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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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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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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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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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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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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
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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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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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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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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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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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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
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