Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThere have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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 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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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