Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHappy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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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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