Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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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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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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