Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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