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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYOur yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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