I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhen Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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