This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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!
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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
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The present is an eternal now.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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