When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
ABRAHAM COWLEYA 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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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