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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYFill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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