Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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