But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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