Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAh! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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