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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 an eternal now.
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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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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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