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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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England
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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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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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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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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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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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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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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