Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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