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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYMuch will always wanting be To him who much desires.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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