Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
ABRAHAM COWLEY
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley 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.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley The monster London laugh at me.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley 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
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley :Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley 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.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley
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Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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Dear friends, have you begun to sing the “new song? ” Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord
Abbott Eliot KittredgeAbbott Eliot Kittredge I think that the pageant world overall is pretty spectacular, it just makes you feel good about yourself and leaves you with great friends.
Abbey CurranAbbey Curran My car’s my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We’re in the most comfortable seats because we’re not facing each other, but sitting side by side.
Abbas KiarostamiAbbas Kiarostami I haven’t got any friends from where I grew up, but that’s not to do with fame.
Aaron Taylor-JohnsonAaron Taylor-Johnson Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
Aaron SwartzAaron Swartz When I was 11 my friend’s mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, ‘I’m never eating anything else again.’ And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Aaron SwartzAaron Swartz I’m Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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