Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCome, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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