Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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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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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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