Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
ABRAHAM COWLEYMuch will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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