Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEY“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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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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