Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
ABRAHAM COWLEYUnbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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