Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
ABRAHAM COWLEYIt was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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