When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
ABRAHAM COWLEYOf all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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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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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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