Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
ABRAHAM COWLEYLet’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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