This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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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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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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