Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
ABRAHAM COWLEYHope is the most hopeless thing of all.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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