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.
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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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