Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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