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
ABRAHAM COWLEYNeither the praise nor the blame is our own.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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