Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
ABRAHAM COWLEYBegin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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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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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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