Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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