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T is the will that makes the action good or ill.

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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Action
Makes
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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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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
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