:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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 getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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