Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhen Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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