"Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise."

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Source : 'Ode upon a Copy of Verses of My Lord Broghill's' (1663)

Abraham Cowley

#Encouragement Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“But we're lost in a world of appearances now.”
“Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.”
“Iâ€™ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. Iâ€™ll wait until you think Iâ€™ve forgotten today. Iâ€™ll wait until you think it was just a dumb guild ratâ€™s threat. After Iâ€™m a master, youâ€™ll jump at shadows for a while. But after you jump a dozen times and Iâ€™m not there, you wonâ€™t jump just once, and thatâ€™s when Iâ€™ll be there. I donâ€™t care if you kill me at the same time. Iâ€™ll trade my life for yours.”
“Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.”

Source : Jane Rule (1981). “Outlander”, Tallahassee, Fla. : Naiad Press
“The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.”

Source : Absalom Jones, Richard Allen (1993). “A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793: And a Refutation of Some Censures Thrown Upon Them in Some Late Publications”, Eastern Acorn Press
“No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, Oh, Julie Adams - Creature from the Black Lagoon.”
“It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.”
“I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.”

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