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Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.

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
Contentment
Content
Short
Learn
Fall
Doth

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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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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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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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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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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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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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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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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.
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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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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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