May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Nature 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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of 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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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