It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's. - Abraham Cowley
Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
- Abraham Cowley
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. - Abraham Cowley
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. - Abraham Cowley
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. - Abraham Cowley
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without. - Abraham Cowley
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last. - Abraham Cowley
Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all. - Abraham Cowley
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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 despi… - Abraham Cowley
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 despi…
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with ve… - Abraham Cowley
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with ve…
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