Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
ABRAHAM COWLEYDoes not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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