Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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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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The present is an eternal now.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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The monster London laugh at me.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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