Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
ABRAHAM COWLEY
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Abraham Cowley93 quotes“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.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley 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 CowleyAbraham Cowley What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley The monster London laugh at me.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley 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
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley 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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Alan CarrAlan Carr I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
Alan BennettAlan Bennett Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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HalseyHalsey I dragged my pain into the darkness, I carried it into the light – No matter where I choose to take it, This pain refuses to subside. I washed my sins off in the ocean, I prayed all my badness away, Whichever God I choose to worship, I cannot make my soul be saved.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola She was getting fat and he was getting bald. As promised, they were growing old together.
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