It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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