Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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