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.”
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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