<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338730" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Vote (excerpt)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">...<br> This only grant me: that my means may lie<br> Too low for envy, for contempt too high.<br> Some honour I would have,<br> Not from great deeds, but good alone;<br> Th' ignote are better than ill-known,<br> Rumour can ope the grave.<br> Acquaintance I would hug, but when 't depends<br> Not from the number, but the choice of friends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Books should, not bus'ness, entertain the light,<br> And sleep, as undisturb'd as death, the night.<br> My house a cottage, more<br> Than palace, and should fitting be<br> For all my use, no luxury.<br> My garden painted o'er<br> With Nature's hand, not Art's, and pleasures yield<br> Horace might envy in his Sabine field.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thus would I double my life's fading space,<br> For he that runs it well, twice runs his race.<br> And in this true delight,<br> These unbought sports and happy state<br> I would not fear, nor wish my fate,<br> But boldly say each night,<br> To-morrow let my sun his beams display,<br> Or in clouds hide them; I have liv'd to-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Abraham+Cowley">Abraham Cowley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338730" data-title="A Vote (excerpt) de Abraham Cowley" data-description="... This only grant me: that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone; Th' ignote are better than ill-known, Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would hug,..."></div> </div> </div>

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