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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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