Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
ABRAHAM COWLEYVain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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