Life is an incurable disease.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNeither the praise nor the blame is our own.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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 have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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