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!
ABRAHAM COWLEYHope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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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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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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