Life is an incurable disease.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAs 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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