All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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