Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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