When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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