This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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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.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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