Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe monster London laugh at me.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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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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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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