Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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