Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
ABRAHAM COWLEYVain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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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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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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