:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHis time’s forever, everywhere his place.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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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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