His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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