Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
ABRAHAM COWLEYI 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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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