Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAh, 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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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