For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBeauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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