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?
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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The present is an eternal now.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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