His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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