Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
ABRAHAM COWLEYAcquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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