Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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