Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
ABRAHAM COWLEY
A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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