Society.

Two things do make society to stand:
The first commerce is, and the next command.

Robert Herrick

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.

Robert Herrick

Good Precepts, Or Counsel

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Saint Distaff's Day, Or The Morrow After Twelfth Day.

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The Power In The People.

Let kings command and do the best they may,
The saucy subjects still will bear the sway.

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Like Pattern, Like People.

This is the height of justice: that to do
Thyself which thou put'st other men unto.
As great men lead, the meaner follow on,
Or to the good, or evil action.

Robert Herrick

Conformity.

Conformity was ever known
A foe to dissolution:
Nor can we that a ruin call,
Whose crack gives crushing unto all.

Robert Herrick

Factions.

The factions of the great ones call,
To side with them, the commons all.

Robert Herrick

Moderation.

In things a moderation keep:
Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep.

Robert Herrick

Evil.

Evil no nature hath; the loss of good
Is that which gives to sin a livelihood.

Robert Herrick