Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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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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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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 that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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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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