Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
ABRAHAM COWLEYIn 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.”
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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The present is an eternal now.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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