May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
ABRAHAM COWLEYOur yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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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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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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!
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