For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBeauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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