Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
ABRAHAM COWLEYI might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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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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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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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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