The monster London laugh at me.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife is an incurable disease.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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The present is an eternal now.
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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 so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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