His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHappy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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