The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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