I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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