The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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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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 world’s a scene of changes.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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