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'Tis not Apollo can, or those thrice three
Castalian sisters, sing, if wanting thee.
Horace, Anacreon, both had lost their fame,
Had'st thou not fill'd them with thy fire and flame.

— Robert Herrick Hesperides (1648)

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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.

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Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

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Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never,
But like a laurel to grow green for ever.

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Against diseases here the strongest fence
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence.

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If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right;
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

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