All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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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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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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