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Humble we must be, if to Heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low: Whene’er thou speak’st look with a lowly eye— Grace is increased by humility.
Humble we must be, if to Heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low: Whene’er thou speak’st look with a lowly eye— Grace is increased by humility.
Approximate author period: c. 1632 AD · renaissance
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- Robert Herrick
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- Approximate author period: c. 1632 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1591–1674)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 310 · printed citation: Robert Herrick · subject: HUMILITY
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