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?
ABRAHAM COWLEYThere have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate 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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The monster London laugh at me.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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