Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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“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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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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 people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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