Life is an incurable disease.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBeauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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