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“Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!”

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Abraham Cowley was a 17th-century English poet renowned for his elegant poetic style and profound literary thoughts. His works had a profound impact on the literary world of his time and are considered among the representative figures of classical poetry. more

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“As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.”

Lying Known Honor Doctors Sight Notoriety

Author:Abraham Cowley

“And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.”

Needs Looks Political Greatest Political Political Education

Author:Wavy Gravy

“Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.”

Should Book Light Night Sleep

Book:The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press, publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street ...

Source: The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press, publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street ...

“There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.”

Ifs Men May Helping Wish Cutting Fortune Contentment Length Remedy Defects

Book:Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse

Source: Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse

“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?”

Men Should Found Moral Drink Creatures Eternal Drinking Rounds Glasses Bowls Sober

Author:Abraham Cowley

“There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.”

Has Beens Earth Friends Kings Fewer Fewer Friends

Book:The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806

Source: The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806

“Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.”

Men Kind Dog All Kinds Beast Lions Foxes Roaring Treacherous Crocodiles Robbing Vulture

Book:The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...

Source: The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...

“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

Long Made Earth Fall Water Music Air Figures Fame Moon Rounds Active Graves Decent Strings Strokes Woven Tenors Saturn

Author:Abraham Cowley

“Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.”

Book:The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press

Source: The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press

“Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.”

Wells Doe Stills Gone Draws Stores Yesterday Yield Exhausted Morrow

Book:The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse

Source: The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse