Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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