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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
Poet
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London
England
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Action
Makes
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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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When one is past, another care we have Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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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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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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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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Give house-room to the best 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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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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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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