Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
ABRAHAM COWLEYGod the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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