I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
ABRAHAM COWLEYHappy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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