May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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