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?
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 is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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