All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe world’s a scene of changes.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is an eternal now.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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