| 35 Famous Quotes by Abraham Cowley
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“Hence ye profane; I hate ye all;
Both the great vulgar, and the small.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Of Greatness, translation of Horace, ode I, bk. III
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“Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”
Gods Quotes Source: Anacreontics--The Grasshopper (l. 8)
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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,
Both wise, and both delightful too.
And since Love ne'er will from me flee,
A mistress moderately fair,
And good as Guardian angels are,
Only belov'd and loving me.”
Possession Quotes Source: The Wish (st. 2)
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“What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?”
Fame Quotes Source: The Motto (l. 1)
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“Nothing in Nature's sober found,
But an eternal Health goes round.
Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--
Fill all the Glasses there; for why
Should every Creature Drink but I?
Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?”
Drinking Quotes Source: Anacreon II--Drinking
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“The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain,
And drinks, and gapes for Drink again;
The Plants suck in the Earth and are
With constant Drinking fresh and fair.”
Drinking Quotes Source: Anacreon II--Drinking
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“Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit
Of poets triumphs over it.”
Poets Quotes Source: On the Praise of Poetry (ode I, l. 13)
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“Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past,
And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.”
Content Quotes Source: Imitations--Martial (bk. X, ep. XLVII)
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“Hence ye profane; I hate ye all;
Both the great vulgar, and the small.”
Public Quotes Source: Of Greatness, translation of Horace, ode I, bk. III
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“Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day,
But night itself does the rich gem betray.”
Jewels Quotes Source: Davideis (bk. III, l. 37)
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“Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find:
Occasion once past by, is bald behind.”
Opportunity Quotes Source: Pyramus and Thisbe (XV)
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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.”
Opportunity Quotes Source: Pyramus and Thisbe (XV)
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“Happy insect! what can be
In happiness compared to thee?
Fed with nourishment divine,
The dewy morning's gentle wine!
Nature waits upon thee still,
And thy verdant cup does fill;
'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread,
Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”
Grasshoppers Quotes Source: Anacreontiques (no. 10, Grasshopper)
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“We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before.”
Blushes Quotes Source: Works (p. 60), (1693 ed.), a discourse concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell
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“Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create.”
Gold Quotes Source: Anacreontics--Gold (l. 17)
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“Money was made, not to command our will,
But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.
Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey;
The horse doth with the horseman run away.”
Money Quotes Source: Imitations--Tenth Epistle of Horace (bk. I, l. 75)
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“Hope! of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.”
Hope Quotes Source: The Mistress--For Hope
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“An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.”
Hair Quotes Source: Davideis (bk. II, l. 803)
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“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”
Faith Quotes Source: On the Death of Crashaw (l. 55)
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“Words that weep, and tears that speak.”
Tears Quotes Source: The Prophet (st. 2, l. 8)
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“For the whole world, without a native home,
Is nothing but a prison of larger room.”
Home Quotes Source: To the Bishop of Lincoln (l. 27)
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“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.”
Eternity Quotes Source: Davideis (bk. I)
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“Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise
Up between two eternities!”
Eternity Quotes Source: Ode on Life and Fame (l. 18)
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“Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.”
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“Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.”
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