All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
ABRAHAM COWLEYFill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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