All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife is an incurable disease.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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