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Abraham Cowley quotes: Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race. Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind. Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
Abraham Cowley quotes: God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be! Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
Abraham Cowley quotes: The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends. Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages. Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Life is an incurable disease. Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover? Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
Abraham Cowley quotes: Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
Abraham Cowley quotes: A mighty pain to love it is,And 't is a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain. A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Banish business, banish sorrow. To the gods belongs tomorrow. Banish business, banish sorrow. To the gods belongs tomorrow.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile. Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Life for delays and doubts no time does give,None ever yet made haste enough to live. Life for delays and doubts no time does give,
None ever yet made haste enough to live.
Abraham Cowley quotes: There have been fewer friends on earth than kings. There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Abraham Cowley quotes: His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right. His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
Abraham Cowley quotes: For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape! Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
Abraham Cowley quotes: Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
Abraham Cowley quotes: Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise. Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
Abraham Cowley quotes: 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 lived today. 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 lived today.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Neither the praise nor the blame is our own. Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
Abraham Cowley quotes: The world's a scene of changes. The world's a scene of changes.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Who that has reason, and his smell,Would not among roses and jasmin dwell? Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Abraham Cowley quotes: May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true. May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Abraham Cowley quotes: The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey. The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Abraham Cowley quotes: The present is an eternal now. The present is an eternal now.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Ere I descend to th' grave,May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books. Ere I descend to th' grave,
May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends, and many books.
Abraham Cowley quotes: What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies! What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
Abraham Cowley quotes: His time's forever, everywhere his place. His time's forever, everywhere his place.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
Abraham Cowley quotes: All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy! All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
Abraham Cowley quotes: Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last. Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
Abraham Cowley quotes: What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own? What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
Abraham Cowley quotes: This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without. Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Books should, not Business, entertain the Light;And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night. Books should, not Business, entertain the Light;
And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Hope is the most hopeless thing of all. Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
Abraham Cowley quotes: All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries. All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company. Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone provesAs strong as thunder is in Jove's. Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves
As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends. Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
Abraham Cowley quotes: When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled. When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
Abraham Cowley quotes: The present is all the ready money Fate can give. The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Much will always wanting beTo him who much desires. Much will always wanting be
To him who much desires.
Abraham Cowley quotes: But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders. But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
Abraham Cowley quotes: Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on. Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.
Abraham Cowley quotes: I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast ... I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast ...
Abraham Cowley quotes: Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last. Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
Abraham Cowley quotes: The monster London laugh at me. The monster London laugh at me.

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