Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHis faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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 only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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