Abraham Cowley Short Quotes

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His time is forever, everywhere his place.

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Charm'd with the foolish whistlings of a name.

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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

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We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.

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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.

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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

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Lukewarmness I account a sin
As great in love as in religion.

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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

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The fairest garden in her looks,
And in her mind the wisest books.

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What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?

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Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.

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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,
Both the great vulgar and the small.

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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape
Who dost in every country change thy shape!

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Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

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The stings,
The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings
Of this great hive, the city.

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves
As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

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This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt too high.

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Unable to corrupt, seek to destroy;
And where their Poysons miss, the Sword employ.

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He saw the beauties of his shape and face,
His female sweetness, and his manly grace

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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

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Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given
The two most sacred names of earth and Heaven.

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Thus each extream to equal danger tends,
Plenty as well as Want can separate Friends;

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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

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