"This only grant me, that my means may……" — Abraham Cowley
"This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high."
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Abraham Cowley
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46 Quotes by Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley has 46 quotes on this site.
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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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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it…
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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 Contempt Quotes
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the…
— Carl Bernstein
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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
— Jello Biafra
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love.…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
— Cesar Chavez
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten…
— Lord Chesterfield
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
— Winston Churchill
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