The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
ABRAHAM COWLEYCoy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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“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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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