I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
ABRAHAM COWLEYTo-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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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 is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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