All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhat shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Both 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.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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“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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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