Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHappy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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