Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBuild yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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