Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHappy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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