Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
ABRAHAM COWLEYGod the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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