Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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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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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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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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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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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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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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