Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCuriosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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