Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
ABRAHAM COWLEYNature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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The present is an eternal now.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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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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