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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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The present is an eternal now.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to 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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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