Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBuild yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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