Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhen Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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