The world’s a scene of changes.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife is an incurable disease.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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