Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
ABRAHAM COWLEYIn 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.”
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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