Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
ABRAHAM COWLEYThus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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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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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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