All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
ABRAHAM COWLEYWho that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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