God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEYEnjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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There 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!
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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