Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
ABRAHAM COWLEYUnbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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