All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
ABRAHAM COWLEY
Happy 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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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