The world’s a scene of changes.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBoth wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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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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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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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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