All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
ABRAHAM COWLEYI never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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