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.”
ABRAHAM COWLEYBut what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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