This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCome, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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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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