All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
ABRAHAM COWLEYBeauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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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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