The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
ABRAHAM COWLEYGold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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