Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
ABRAHAM COWLEYFill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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.”
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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