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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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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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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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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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You say to me-wards your affection's strong Pray love me little, so you love me long.
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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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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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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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