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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.
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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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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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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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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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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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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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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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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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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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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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.
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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
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