Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAcquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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 present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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