Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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