Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
ABRAHAM COWLEYOur 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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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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