Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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 all the ready money Fate can give.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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