I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhy to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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