No More Learning

159. BURIAL

Man may want land to live in; but for all
Nature finds out some place for burial.




160. NO PAINS, NO GAINS

If little labour, little are our gains;
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.




161. TO YOUTH

Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
The morrow's life too late is; Live to-day.




162. TO ENJOY THE TIME

While fates permit us, let's be merry;
Pass all we must the fatal ferry;
And this our life, too, whirls away,
With the rotation of the day.




163. FELICITY QUICK OF FLIGHT

Every time seems short to be
That's measured by felicity;
But one half-hour that's made up here
With grief, seems longer than a year.




164. MIRTH

True mirth resides not in the smiling skin;
The sweetest solace is to act no sin.




165. THE HEART

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part
Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.




166.
LOVE, WHAT IT IS

Love is a circle, that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of Love.




167. DREAMS

Here we are all, by day; by night we're hurl'd
By dreams, each one into a several world.




168. AMBITION

In man, ambition is the common'st thing;
Each one by nature loves to be a king.




169. SAFETY ON THE SHORE

What though the sea be calm? Trust to the shore;
Ships have been drown'd, where late they danced before.




170. UPON A PAINTED GENTLEWOMAN

Men say you're fair; and fair ye are, 'tis true;
But, hark! we praise the painter now, not you.




171. UPON WRINKLES

Wrinkles no more are, or no less,
Than beauty turn'd to sourness.




172. CASUALTIES

Good things, that come of course, far less do please
Than those which come by sweet contingencies.




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