But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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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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