Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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The monster London laugh at me.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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