Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThere Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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The present is an eternal now.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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