Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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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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