When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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