Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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