Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe world’s a scene of changes.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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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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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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