Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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 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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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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