In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
ABRAHAM COWLEYBeauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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The present is an eternal now.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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