Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhat shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is an eternal now.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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