Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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