Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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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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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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