Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBeauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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