Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCome, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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