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 COWLEYMay I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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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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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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