God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCuriosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only 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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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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