Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
ABRAHAM COWLEY:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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