Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLet’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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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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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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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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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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