Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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