May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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.
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without. - Abraham Cowley
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all. - Abraham Cowley
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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.
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.
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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