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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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