Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhat shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Both 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.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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