But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate 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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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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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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