Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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