Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHis faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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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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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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