God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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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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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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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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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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