Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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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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