Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
ABRAHAM COWLEYDoes 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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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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Solitude 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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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The present is an eternal now.
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