Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
ABRAHAM COWLEY
ABRAHAM COWLEY
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Abraham Cowley93 quotes“Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high”
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley 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.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley The monster London laugh at me.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
Abraham CowleyAbraham Cowley :Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
Akio MoritaAkio Morita You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That’s our passion here.
Al DavisAl Davis Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
Akkineni NagarjunaAkkineni Nagarjuna Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I think dates considered super corny and cheesy – whether it’s going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other – those always make the most memorable dates!
Aimee TeegardenAimee Teegarden I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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