Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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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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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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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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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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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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