Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLet’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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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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