I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHis time’s forever, everywhere his place.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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