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.
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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Both 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.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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