The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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