Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLet’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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