Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEYI 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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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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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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