This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHis faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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The present is an eternal now.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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