Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAcquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Solitude 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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The present is an eternal now.
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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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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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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 would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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