The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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