Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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