His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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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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