Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
ABRAHAM COWLEYOf all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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