A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBoth wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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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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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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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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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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