The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
ABRAHAM COWLEYThere have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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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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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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The present is an eternal now.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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