The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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 dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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