Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEYFor the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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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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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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