Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhen Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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