As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
ABRAHAM COWLEYEnjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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The present is an eternal now.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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