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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
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But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.
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Fain would I, but I dare not I dare, and yet I may not I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
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Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
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