Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLet’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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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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