Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife is an incurable disease.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate 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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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