I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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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 motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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