I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
ABRAHAM COWLEYAs 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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 for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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