When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
ABRAHAM COWLEYMuch will always wanting be To him who much desires.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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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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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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And 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.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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