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Abraham Cowley

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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Life is an incurable disease.
ABRAHAM COWLEY His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the righ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEY The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
ABRAHAM COWLEY God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Words that weep, and tears that speak.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain, And drinks, and gapes for Drink again; The Plants suck in...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEY What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?
ABRAHAM COWLEY His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY And I myself a Catholic will be,
So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.
Hail, Bard tri...
ABRAHAM COWLEY We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
ABRAHAM COWLEY Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Go...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few F...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
ABRAHAM COWLEY An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, T...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
ABRAHAM COWLEY We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'arge...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Of all ills that one endures,/ hope is a cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Life is an incurable disease
ABRAHAM COWLEY Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
ABRAHAM COWLEY And I myself a Catholic will be, / So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. / Hail, Bard trium...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Th' adorning thee with so much artIs but a barb'rous skill;'Tis like the poisoning of a dart,Too apt...
ABRAHAM COWLEY The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy
ABRAHAM COWLEY Love in her sunny eyes does basking play;/ Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;/ Love does on ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make
ABRAHAM COWLEY This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high
ABRAHAM COWLEY Though you be absent here, I needs must say / The trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay, / As e...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure
ABRAHAM COWLEY A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest p...
ABRAHAM COWLEY I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends
ABRAHAM COWLEY What shall I do to be forever known,/ And make the age to come my own?
ABRAHAM COWLEY For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?
ABRAHAM COWLEY Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good!
ABRAHAM COWLEY The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the e...
ABRAHAM COWLEY I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
HANNAH COWLEY Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else...
HANNAH COWLEY It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
HANNAH COWLEY If I see someone down, I'll try to give him a good laugh.
JOE COWLEY Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to...
MALCOLM COWLEY Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a le...
JOE COWLEY It's a weird spot for a slide. I think it just has to do with how this storm hit and the way the sno...
SAVANNAH COWLEY Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to wri...
MALCOLM COWLEY Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough.
JOE COWLEY I'm not the kind of guy who will pass someone without saying hello. If that's flaky, then I ...
JOE COWLEY Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often...
MALCOLM COWLEY Age is not different from earlier life as long as you’re sitting down.
MALCOLM COWLEY They're those big, huge rubber tires and we have tons of them.
SAVANNAH COWLEY This is an unnecessary inconvenience.
JAHNI COWLEY We've eliminated all the overhead utilities and relocated gas lines out there. The whole area is fen...
PHIL COWLEY Age is not different from earlier life as long as you’re sitting down.
MALCOLM COWLEY Be kind and considerate with your criticism. . . . It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to...
MALCOLM COWLEY It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
MALCOLM COWLEY Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you
MALCOLM COWLEY They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you w...
MALCOLM COWLEY Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
MALCOLM COWLEY The strikers' actions were violent and Solidarity is in possession of photographs showing the extent...
JAHNI COWLEY The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by tho...
MALCOLM COWLEY They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that...
MALCOLM COWLEY Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the...
MALCOLM COWLEY It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
MALCOLM COWLEY I'm a slow starter, but it's time to flip on the switch.
JOE COWLEY We find it strange that there would be this call for another review when the task force has not yet ...
DARON COWLEY Vanity, like murder, will out
HANNAH COWLEY But what is woman? - only one of Nature's more agreeable blunders
HANNAH COWLEY The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal ...
HANNAH COWLEY It has been a really wonderful and rewarding experience, and we as a commission have done a tremendo...
JENNIFER COWLEY We don't have anything to protect this particular area.
JENNIFER COWLEY We're creating a community plan for each community and we're working with the county to revise some ...
JENNIFER COWLEY The students have learned a lot. First, learning about the level of devastation. What we saw on TV d...
JENNIFER COWLEY Based on a thorough analysis of the five-year academic results at all 2,850 schools appearing in the...
PETER COWLEY We strongly urge the two governments to take bold steps in order to start implementation of solution...
ABRAHAM ABRAHAM Vanity, like murder, will out.
HANNAH PARKHOUSE COWLEY I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not plea...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I shou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The le...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by c...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain'...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Some day I shall be President.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest r...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should neve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my li...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, f...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive conce...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fo...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
ABRAHAM CAHAN If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
ABRAHAM CAHAN How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible wort...
ABRAHAM CAHAN The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection a...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I di...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOW What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of ...
ABRAHAM VERGHESE A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of men...
KARL ABRAHAM Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inh...
KARL ABRAHAM Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the d...
KARL ABRAHAM A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neur...
KARL ABRAHAM Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychologi...
KARL ABRAHAM The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed ...
KARL ABRAHAM Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural simi...
KARL ABRAHAM Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to vi...
KARL ABRAHAM When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibit...
KARL ABRAHAM Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child wil...
KARL ABRAHAM In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
KARL ABRAHAM The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that any...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver...
JOHN ABRAHAM I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fai...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Property is the fruit of laborproperty is desirableis a positive good in the world. That some should...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me great...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You have heard the story, havent you, about the man who was tarred and feathered and carried out of ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. H...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Senator Stephen Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the arm...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocab...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race In the sweat of thy face ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain itkeep it....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their mili...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by inte...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Dear Madam,I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safegu...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I wou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one amon...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the mos...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his countrys cause. Honor also to the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Whenever I hear any one, arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personal...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be reme...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goe...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN