Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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