In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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