To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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