Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
ABRAHAM COWLEYFill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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And 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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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