Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHope is the most hopeless thing of all.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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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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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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