There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAnd I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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