The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
ABRAHAM COWLEYNature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a 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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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