To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAh! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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