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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Hesperides (1648)
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
Hesperides (1648)
Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never,
But like a laurel to grow green for ever.
Hesperides (1648)
Against diseases here the strongest fence
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence.
Hesperides (1648)
If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right;
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
Hesperides (1648)
Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,
Short lot or not, to be content with all.
Hesperides (1648)
When fear admits no hope of safety, then
Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
Hesperides (1648)
Like to These garden-glories, which here be
The flowery-sweet resemblances of thee.
Hesperides (1648)
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind;
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.
Hesperides (1648)
'Twixt truth and error there's this difference known;
Error is fruitful, truth is only one.
Hesperides (1648)
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part,
Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
Hesperides (1648)
'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own.
Hesperides (1648)
You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.
Hesperides (1648)
Art quickens nature; care will make a face;
Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
Hesperides (1648)
The body sins not, 'tis the will
That makes the action, good or ill.
Hesperides (1648)
Each must in virtue strive for to excel;
That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Hesperides (1648)
Fight thou with shafts of silver and o'ercome,
When no force else can get the masterdom.
Hesperides (1648)
Let moderation on thy passions wait;
Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.
Hesperides (1648)
Know when to speak; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Hesperides (1648)
Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all
Is, when love's honey has a dash of gall.
Hesperides (1648)