When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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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The monster London laugh at me.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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