What did Abraham Cowley mean by: Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends. - Abraham Cowley Poet · England Copy
+ Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Choices, Friendship, Numbers, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Fables, Fiction, Lying, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Doubt, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be! Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Cheating, Hope, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell? Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Smell, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own? Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Age, Reputation, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Neither the praise nor the blame is our own. Feraz Zeid, September 18, 2023December 24, 2023, Abraham Cowley, Appreciate, Blame, Praise, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Past, Time, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France