May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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 have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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