Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhat 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!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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