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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
Writer
London
England
Writing
Love
Bids
Blush
Words
Speak
Write

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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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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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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
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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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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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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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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.
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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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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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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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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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O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine
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Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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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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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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