Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
ABRAHAM COWLEYTo 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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 in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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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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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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The present is an eternal now.
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