It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThere 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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