But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
ABRAHAM COWLEYUnbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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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 the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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