“Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?”
The Sun Rising, stanza 1
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“Thou through such a mist dost show us,
That our best friends do not know us.”
A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)

“Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?”
Cur non ut plenus vitae conviva recedis
aequo animoque capis securam, stulte, quietem?
Book III, lines 938–939 (tr. Bailey)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)

The Rosary and Other Poems, On the Ramparts at Angoulême; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 769-70.
Shir Hakovod, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill