Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWater and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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