May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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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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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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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