Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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