Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhy 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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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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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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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I 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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