“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
ABRAHAM COWLEYBeauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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