Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. Abraham Cowley More Quotes by Abraham Cowley More Quotes From Abraham Cowley Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. Abraham Cowley sin love religion Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company. Abraham Cowley company solitary life 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. Abraham Cowley cities men world Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Abraham Cowley wine self morning Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, Abraham Cowley wise time running Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Abraham Cowley conquer triumph poet Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, 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. Abraham Cowley angel wise book Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover? Abraham Cowley mute silent lovers When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled. Abraham Cowley israel land sea Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony. Abraham Cowley humble may inspire The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head. Abraham Cowley naps sleep thinking Neither the praise nor the blame is our own. Abraham Cowley blame praise appreciation Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves Abraham Cowley strong stones hands Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be! Abraham Cowley hundred hope cheating As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor. Abraham Cowley doctors sight lying God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. Abraham Cowley cain garden cities Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last. Abraham Cowley nothing now always past Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. Abraham Cowley cheap only hope men The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. Abraham Cowley changes scene nature world This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. Abraham Cowley high lie me envy
