It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
ABRAHAM COWLEYIt was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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