Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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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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I 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.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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