The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
ABRAHAM COWLEYI confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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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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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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