Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
ABRAHAM COWLEYA 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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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 present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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