This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhy to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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