“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
ABRAHAM COWLEYAnd 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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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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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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The present is an eternal now.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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