Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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 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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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“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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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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