The present is an eternal now.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Life is an incurable disease.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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