His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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