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
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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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