Abraham Cowley Quotes
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
Abraham Cowley
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The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,And drinks, and gapes for drink again;The plants suck in the earth, and areWith constant drinking fresh and fair.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,But search of deep philosophy,Wit, eloquence, and poetry;Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.
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Words that weep and tears that speak.
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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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Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!
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An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
Abraham Cowley
