Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCoy 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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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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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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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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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