What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
ABRAHAM COWLEYNeither the praise nor the blame is our own.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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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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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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