The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
ABRAHAM COWLEYMuch will always wanting be To him who much desires.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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