Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhen Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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