Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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