Quote

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

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
Cheerful
Almost
Company
Littleness
House
Feast
Littles
Confess
Little
Estate
Things
Estates
Love
Convenient

More quotes by Abraham Cowley

Image
Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Abraham Cowley
Image
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
Abraham Cowley
Image
Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
Abraham Cowley
Image
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Abraham Cowley
Image
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Abraham Cowley
Image
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
Abraham Cowley
Image
There is some help for all the defects of fortune for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
Abraham Cowley
Image
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?
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
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I 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.
Abraham Cowley
Image
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 Cowley
Image
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
Image
Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
Abraham Cowley
Image
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!
Abraham Cowley
Image
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
Abraham Cowley
Image
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
Abraham Cowley