The monster London laugh at me.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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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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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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