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?
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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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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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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