To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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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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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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 Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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