The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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