All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBeauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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The present is an eternal now.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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