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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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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