Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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