Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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The monster London laugh at me.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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