Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThere Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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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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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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