Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe 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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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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