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
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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