God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Life is an incurable disease.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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