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Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race. — Abraham Cowley

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind. — Abraham Cowley

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. — Abraham Cowley

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be! — Abraham Cowley

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. — Abraham Cowley

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends. — Abraham Cowley

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. — Abraham Cowley

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

Life is an incurable disease. — Abraham Cowley

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover? — Abraham Cowley

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! — Abraham Cowley

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

Banish business, banish sorrow. To the gods belongs tomorrow. — Abraham Cowley

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile. — Abraham Cowley

Life for delays and doubts no time does give,
None ever yet made haste enough to live. — Abraham Cowley

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings. — Abraham Cowley

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right. — Abraham Cowley

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room. — Abraham Cowley

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape! — Abraham Cowley

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

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise. — Abraham Cowley

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. — Abraham Cowley

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

Neither the praise nor the blame is our own. — Abraham Cowley

The world's a scene of changes. — Abraham Cowley

Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell? — Abraham Cowley

May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true. — Abraham Cowley

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. — Abraham Cowley

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey. — Abraham Cowley

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. — Abraham Cowley

The present is an eternal now. — Abraham Cowley

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. — Abraham Cowley

Ere I descend to th' grave,
May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends, and many books. — Abraham Cowley

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

His time's forever, everywhere his place. — Abraham Cowley

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. — Abraham Cowley

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy! — Abraham Cowley

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last. — Abraham Cowley

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own? — Abraham Cowley

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. — Abraham Cowley

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. — Abraham Cowley

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without. — Abraham Cowley

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light;
And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night. — Abraham Cowley

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all. — Abraham Cowley

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries. — Abraham Cowley

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company. — Abraham Cowley

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves
As strong as thunder is in Jove's. — Abraham Cowley

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends. — Abraham Cowley

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled. — Abraham Cowley

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. — Abraham Cowley

The present is all the ready money Fate can give. — Abraham Cowley

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. — Abraham Cowley

Much will always wanting be
To him who much desires. — Abraham Cowley

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders. — Abraham Cowley

Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on. — Abraham Cowley

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

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last. — Abraham Cowley

The monster London laugh at me. — Abraham Cowley