There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
ABRAHAM COWLEYStones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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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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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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