Quote

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

Abraham Cowley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
the City
Truth
Charms
Fables
Slight
Truest
Charm
Fiction
Teach
Lying
Poesy

More quotes by Abraham Cowley

Image
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
Abraham Cowley
Image
The world's a scene of changes.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
Abraham Cowley
Image
Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
Abraham Cowley
Image
But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
Abraham Cowley
Image
When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
Abraham Cowley
Image
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
Image
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
Abraham Cowley
Image
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
Abraham Cowley
Image
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
Abraham Cowley
Image
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