Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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