But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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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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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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