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Abraham Cowley Inspirational Quotes (75)

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The world's a scene of changes.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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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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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Thus would I double my life's fading spaceFor he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevailSounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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May I a small house and large garden have And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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 the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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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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A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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