Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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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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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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The present is an eternal now.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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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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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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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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