The present is an eternal now.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhy to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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