Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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