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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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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