Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
ABRAHAM COWLEYTo th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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