Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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