Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Both 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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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