But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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