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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhy dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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