Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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