Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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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 spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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I 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.
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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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