Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
ABRAHAM COWLEYTill the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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 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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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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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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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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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