Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife is an incurable disease.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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