Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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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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