Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
ABRAHAM COWLEYFill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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