When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
ABRAHAM COWLEYCurs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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