Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe present is an eternal now.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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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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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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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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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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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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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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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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