Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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