Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThere have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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