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!
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe monster London laugh at me.
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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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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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