The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
ABRAHAM COWLEYMay I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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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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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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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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