Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe monster London laugh at me.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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