The present is an eternal now.
ABRAHAM COWLEYTill the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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