Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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