When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
ABRAHAM COWLEY“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is an eternal now.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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Our 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.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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