Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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.
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The present is an eternal now.
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