What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
ABRAHAM COWLEYCuriosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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