When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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