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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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