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Whatever men for loyalty pretend,'Tis wisdom's part to doubt a faithful friend.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.
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Distrust.
To safeguard man from wrongs, there nothing mustBe truer to him than a wise distrust.And to thyself be best this sentence known:Hear all men speak, but credit few or none.
Suspicion Makes Secure.
He that will live of all cares dispossess'd,Must shun the bad, aye, and suspect the best.
To The Ladies.
Trust me, ladies, I will doNothing to distemper you;If I any fret or vex,Men they shall be, not your sex.
Multitude.
We trust not to the multitude in war,But to the stout, and those that skilful are.
Purpose
No wrath of men, or rage of seas,Can shake a just man's purposes;No threats of tyrants, or the grimVisage of them can alter him;But what he doth at first intend,That he holds firmly to the end.
To His Friend To Avoid Contention Of Words.
Words beget anger; anger brings forth blows;Blows make of dearest friends immortal foes.For which prevention, sociate, let there beBetwixt us two no more logomachy.Far better 'twere for either to be mute,Than for to murder friendship by dispute.