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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYSolitude 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.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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