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.
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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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