The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCurs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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