Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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The monster London laugh at me.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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