Abraham Cowley Quotes - Page 4

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• Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise,
  He who defers this work from day to day,
  Does on a river's bank expecting stay,
  Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone,
  That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.

  Abraham Cowley

  Wise, Running, Time

  Abraham Cowley (1777). “Select works [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.257

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• Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown,
  A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none,
  Nor seen unveil'd by anyone),
  When Harvey's violent passion she did see,
  Began to tremble and to flee;
  Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree:
  There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much
  The very leaves of her to touch:
  But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so;
  Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!

  Abraham Cowley

  Nature, Passion, Science

  Abraham Cowley (1802). “The Works of Abraham Cowley: With a Preface, Biographical and Critical by Samuel Johnson”, p.110

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