Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
ABRAHAM COWLEYMay I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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