Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife is an incurable disease.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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.
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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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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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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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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
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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