Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
ABRAHAM COWLEY
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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The present is an eternal now.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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