The present is an eternal now.
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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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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