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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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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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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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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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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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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
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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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I dare not ask a kiss I dare not beg a smile Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee.
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