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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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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