Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
ABRAHAM COWLEYBoth wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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