Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
ABRAHAM COWLEYOf all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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