Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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