Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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There 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!
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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