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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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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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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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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There, Where my Julia's lips do smile There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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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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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
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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 sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction.
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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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