The monster London laugh at me.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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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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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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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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