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
ABRAHAM COWLEYTill the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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