Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
ABRAHAM COWLEYFill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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