A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCome, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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