Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
ABRAHAM COWLEYA 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.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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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
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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.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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