What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
ABRAHAM COWLEYGold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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