Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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