Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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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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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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