And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
ABRAHAM COWLEYTo 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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