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 COWLEYSolitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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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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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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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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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 was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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