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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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