Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhy to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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