Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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