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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYGold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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