Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
ABRAHAM COWLEY:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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