The world’s a scene of changes.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHis faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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