What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
ABRAHAM COWLEY
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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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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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