When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
ABRAHAM COWLEYSleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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“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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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