Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBoth 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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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.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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