But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
ABRAHAM COWLEYTo-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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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