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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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