Robert Herrick Quotes on Life
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a-getting The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting.
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Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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But ne'er the rose without the thorn.