"God the first garden made, and the first…" — Abraham Cowley
"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."
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46 Quotes by Abraham Cowley
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at…
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it…
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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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Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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,…
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather,…
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More Cain Quotes
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Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You…
— Herman Cain
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...there's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it cain't be done from a horse...
— Unknown Author
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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a…
— Raymond Chandler
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How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain!
— Herman Cain
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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as…
— William Shakespeare
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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts,…
— John Donne
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Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.
— Phillis Wheatley
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We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
— Edward Dahlberg
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The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by…
— James B. Weaver
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The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be…
— Pope Innocent III
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So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was…
— Warren Jeffs
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