The monster London laugh at me.
ABRAHAM COWLEYMay I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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