Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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