Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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