Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHis time’s forever, everywhere his place.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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