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Abraham Cowley Quotes

Abraham Cowley Quotes.

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.
Abraham Cowley
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was always in the right.
Abraham Cowley
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.
Abraham Cowley
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
Abraham Cowley
Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley
Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
Abraham Cowley
The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
Abraham Cowley
Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
Abraham Cowley
Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Abraham Cowley
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Abraham Cowley
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
Abraham Cowley
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
Abraham Cowley
May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
Abraham Cowley
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.
Abraham Cowley
The world’s a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Abraham Cowley
To-day is ours; what do we fear?
To-day is ours; we have it here.
Let’s treat it kindly, that it may
Wish, at least, with us to stay.
Let’s banish business, banish sorrow;
To the gods belong to-morrow.
Abraham Cowley
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.
Abraham Cowley
Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
Abraham Cowley
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley