Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
ABRAHAM COWLEYGod the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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