Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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