The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLet’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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 present is an eternal now.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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