Life is an incurable disease.
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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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