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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAll this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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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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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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