Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhy to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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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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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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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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