But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
ABRAHAM COWLEYI never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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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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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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