Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHappy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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