Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHis faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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Coy 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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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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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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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