When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
ABRAHAM COWLEYI never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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 never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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