But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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