It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
ABRAHAM COWLEYI 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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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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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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