The monster London laugh at me.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNeither the praise nor the blame is our own.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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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 is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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