All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhat 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!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is an eternal now.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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