The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
ABRAHAM COWLEYTill the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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