Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
ABRAHAM COWLEYPlenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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