It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBut what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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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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