Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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