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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBegin, 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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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The present is an eternal now.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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