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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYOf all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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The present is an eternal now.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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