Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
ABRAHAM COWLEYHope is the most hopeless thing of all.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Life is an incurable disease.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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