The 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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYMan is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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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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