There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThere 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!
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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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The present is an eternal now.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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