Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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