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His time is forever, everywhere his place.
Works (1668)
The fairest garden in her looks,
And in her mind the wisest books.
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Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.
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A man in much business must either make himself a knave, or else the world will make him a fool.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,
Both the great vulgar and the small.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when't depends
Not on the number, but the choice of friends.
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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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To virgin minds, which yet their native whiteness hold,
Not yet discoloured with the love of gold
(That jaundice of the soul,
Which makes it look so gilded and so foul)
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Oh happy, (if his happiness he knows)
The Countrey Swain! on whom kind Heav'n bestows
At home all Riches that wise Nature needs;
Whom the just Earth with easie plenty feeds.
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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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I would not fear nor wish my fate,
But boldly say each night,
To-morrow let my sun his beams display,
Or in clouds hide them; I have liv'd to-day.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Let but thy wicked men from out thee go,
And all the fools that crowd thee so,
Even thou, who dost thy millions boast,
A village less than Islington wilt grow,
A solitude almost.
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If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;
God to their cares and fears will set no bound.
What would content you? Who can tell?
Ye fear so much to lose what you have got
As if ye liked it well.
Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.
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