Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
ABRAHAM COWLEYStones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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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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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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