Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEYStones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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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!
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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