There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
ABRAHAM COWLEYA 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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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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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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