Abraham Cowley Quotes
Top 58 wise famous quotes and sayings by Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.
Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
Ere I descend to th' grave,
May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends, and many books.
May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends, and many books.
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!
When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast ...