Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
ABRAHAM COWLEYThus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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