The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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