Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of 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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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