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.
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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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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