:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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