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But boldly say each night,
To-morrow let my sun his beams display,
Or in clouds hide them; I have lived...
For why
Should every creature drink but I,
Why, man of morals, tell me why?
Of all ills that one endures,
hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Source: In
Lukewarmness I account a sin,
As great in love as in religion.
Source: The...
What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?
Source:...
Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good!
Source: Of Solitude
-- Abraham...
Love in her sunny eyes does basking play;
Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;
Love does on both her lips...
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Source: Essays, in Verse and...
And I myself a Catholic will be,
So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.
Hail, Bard triumphant! and some...
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave
May I a small house, and large garden have!
And a few friends, and many...
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
Source:...
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of...
Life is an incurable Disease.
Source: Pindarique Odes, 'To Dr. Scarborough',...
The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
The plants suck in the earth and...
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the...
Though you be absent here, I needs must say
The trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay,
As ever they were...
Well then; I now do plainly see,
This busy world and I shall ne'er agree.
Thou needst not make new songs, but say the old.
Source: On the Death of Mr...
The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.
This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt too high.