God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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