Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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The present is an eternal now.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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