But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
ABRAHAM COWLEYFill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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