The monster London laugh at me.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBuild yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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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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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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