Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
Robert Herrick
Some would know Why I so Long still doe tarry, And ask why Here that I Live, and not marry? Thus I those Doe oppose; What man would be here, Slave to Thrall, If at all He could live free here?
marriage
If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
pain
The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
life
A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat, A careless shoestring, in whose tie I see a wild civility, Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
art
nature beauty art
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
doubt theend
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
theend
If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
rights theend
God doth not promise here to man that He Will free him quickly from his misery; But in His own time, and when He thinks fit, Then He will give a happy end to it.
man thetimes time theend
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
danger thetimes time
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
thetimes time
Bid me despair, and I'll despair, Under that cypress tree; Or bid me die, and I will dare E'en Death, to die for thee.
death
Before man's fall the rose was born, St. Ambrose says, without the thorn; But for man's fault then was the thorn Without the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
faults man
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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