Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
ABRAHAM COWLEYI 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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