May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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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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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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