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Abraham Cowley Quotes about Sleep

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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Abraham Cowley
Book, Sleep, Night
Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press, publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street ...”, p.181

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
Country, Humble, Sleep
Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”

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
Sleep, Thinking, Naps

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