There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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