35 Famous Quotes by Abraham Cowley
- 7/28/1667
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About Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721.
Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create.
Gold
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Anacreontics--Gold (l. 17)
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Hence ye profane; I hate ye all;
Both the great vulgar, and the small.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Of Greatness, translation of Horace, ode I, bk. III
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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,
Both wise, and both delightful too.
And since Love ne'er will from me flee,
A mistress moderately fair,
And good as Guardian angels are,
Only belov'd and loving me.
Possession
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: The Wish (st. 2)
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What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?
Fame
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: The Motto (l. 1)
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Nothing in Nature's sober found,
But an eternal Health goes round.
Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--
Fill all the Glasses there; for why
Should every Creature Drink but I?
Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
Drinking
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Anacreon II--Drinking
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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 are
With constant Drinking fresh and fair.
Drinking
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Anacreon II--Drinking
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit
Of poets triumphs over it.
Poets
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: On the Praise of Poetry (ode I, l. 13)
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Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past,
And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.
Content
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Imitations--Martial (bk. X, ep. XLVII)
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Hence ye profane; I hate ye all;
Both the great vulgar, and the small.
Public
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Of Greatness, translation of Horace, ode I, bk. III
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day,
But night itself does the rich gem betray.
Jewels
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Davideis (bk. III, l. 37)
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.
Opportunity
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Pyramus and Thisbe (XV)
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Happy insect! what can be
In happiness compared to thee?
Fed with nourishment divine,
The dewy morning's gentle wine!
Nature waits upon thee still,
And thy verdant cup does fill;
'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread,
Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
Grasshoppers
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Anacreontiques (no. 10, Grasshopper)
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We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before.
Blushes
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Works (p. 60), (1693 ed.), a discourse concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell
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Money was made, not to command our will,
But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.
Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey;
The horse doth with the horseman run away.
Money
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Imitations--Tenth Epistle of Horace (bk. I, l. 75)
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Hope! of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.
Hope
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: The Mistress--For Hope
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An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.
Hair
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Davideis (bk. II, l. 803)
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
Faith
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: On the Death of Crashaw (l. 55)
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For the whole world, without a native home,
Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
Home
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: To the Bishop of Lincoln (l. 27)
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise
Up between two eternities!
Eternity
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley , Source: Ode on Life and Fame (l. 18)
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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.
Money
Quotes, by Abraham Cowley
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