Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
ABRAHAM COWLEYI confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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