Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
ABRAHAM COWLEYTo th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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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
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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