The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
ABRAHAM COWLEYLukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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